Hijacked?
Posted: 2008-12-14 02:52am
So, interesting story boiled down to the brass tacks:
Mom's computer occasionally plays movie audio. I've discovered that whatever is doing this is doing it through Firefox. I figure this is the case because after closing firefox, the sound stays, and firefox uses anywhere from 200 to 500 megs of memory until I force-quit the process, which, hilariously enough, abruptly kills the audio. None of mom's browsing has anything to do with these movies, nor are these movies ever otherwise brought near the computer, let alone committed to memory, volatile or otherwise. I figure this has something to do with the virus that I thought I killed about a week ago.
Thoughts? I'm probably going to nuke the site from orbit anyway, but I thought I'd get some other opinions first.
Mom's computer occasionally plays movie audio. I've discovered that whatever is doing this is doing it through Firefox. I figure this is the case because after closing firefox, the sound stays, and firefox uses anywhere from 200 to 500 megs of memory until I force-quit the process, which, hilariously enough, abruptly kills the audio. None of mom's browsing has anything to do with these movies, nor are these movies ever otherwise brought near the computer, let alone committed to memory, volatile or otherwise. I figure this has something to do with the virus that I thought I killed about a week ago.
Thoughts? I'm probably going to nuke the site from orbit anyway, but I thought I'd get some other opinions first.