Firefox infection?

5 Apr 2016 12:34:37

Eric Jervis

For a few days now, when using Firefox a pop-up appears which is extremely irritating; it says, "Would youlike to share your location with this site?" s0.2mdn.net
It pops up most persistently, giving me oly a few seconds respite when I tell it to go away. Help!

Re: Firefox infection?

7 Apr 2016 15:21:07

Tony Still

<cough> Safari <cough>

Re: Firefox infection?

7 Apr 2016 17:07:00

Drew McFarlane

<cough> Safari <cough>

Tony, will you please explain?

Re: Firefox infection?

8 Apr 2016 19:52:19

Lionel Ogden

If Firefox offends don't use it. Try Safari, Chrome, Opera or even Camino if it is still available

Re: Firefox infection?

9 Apr 2016 18:50:27

Tony Still

Sorry, Lionel put it so much more clearly.

I don't personally like Firefox and Safari works very well (IMHO). Given that it's sitting there on your computer, why not see if it has the same problem?

2mdn is apparently an advertising site that installs an extension. If you don't want to part with FF, you could try the advice here (that amounts to looking in FF's extensions for the culprit - I expect all the scary reboot stuff is only necessary for Windows). Hopefully on the Mac version of FF it has not succeeded in getting beyond being a simple FF extension.

As a wild guess, have you recently updated Java? That now seems to offer advertising extras (from Yahoo) which is rather irritating.

Re: Firefox infection?

10 Apr 2016 09:53:59

Eric Jervis

Hmmm.. no, to the wild guess, and problem hasn't come back since I tried to clear it with Adware Medic.

Re: Firefox infection?

29 Apr 2016 11:54:38

Gabriel Solurine

I was dealing with the same issue recently! Could you name the adware that was detected by adwaremedic?

Re: Firefox infection?

30 Apr 2016 09:51:42

Eric Jervis

It reported that there wasn't any, but I've not had the problem since so it obviously did something!

Re: Firefox infection?

3 May 2016 12:46:03

Gabriel Solurine

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