Re: How do I stop this malware
On Thu, 5 Oct 2023, Roger Heflin wrote:
On Thu, Oct 5, 2023 at 1:11?PM Michael Hennebry
<hennebry(a)web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 30 Sep 2023, George N. White III wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 11:19?AM Michael Hennebry <
>> hennebry(a)web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:
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>> This is trying to cure the disease by eliminating a symptom. You don't
>> know what is
>> happening behind that full screen.
>
> Going fullscreen is part if what makes
> it hard to even try to make it go away.
>
> The malware does three things:
> 1. It shows an image.
> 2. It goes fullscreen.
> 3. It disables buttons.
>
> Preventing 1 would seem a really bad idea.
> I'd like to prevent 2 or 3.
Did you try alt-tab to switch to another application (say a terminal)
to kill the tab from the command line?
I don't think the full screen trick inside firefox can stop that, and
I think I have hit a few of these half-assed websites before, but
alt-tab must have worked for me to bypass them and kill the tab.
I can switch to another virtual console,
but do not know how to kill just one tab.
I can got out of it by disconnecting the ethernet cable,
but would rather disconnect with the GUI.
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