smkranz Posted November 26, 2006 Report Share Posted November 26, 2006 Several days ago, on two different days, I noticed a yellow "downloading updates" icon in my system tray. It went away...never received a notice to reboot to update my system. But then for the past several days, Firefox did not display some (but not all) web sites properly, like these forums. Lost all frames and formatting.Clicked Check for Updates in the Firefox Help menu...it announced that there were no updates (it was running FF 1.5xx). Went to the Firefox home page where 2.0 is now available, downloaded/installed, and all is well again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielbb90 Posted November 28, 2006 Report Share Posted November 28, 2006 Not all windows updates requre reboots, and I can't explain the firefox thing, maby just a ff bug.Well good to hear its all ok now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A440 Posted November 28, 2006 Report Share Posted November 28, 2006 Not to be paranoid--well, sure, to be paranoid--I suggest running some virus and spyware scans. http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-SE-Person...dl&tag=top5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted December 4, 2006 Report Share Posted December 4, 2006 I fear that some of those scanning programs actually contain some spyware you don't know about. Maybe it was caused by a firefox extension? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smkranz Posted December 4, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 4, 2006 Sparda said: I fear that some of those scanning programs actually contain some spyware you don't know about. Maybe it was caused by a firefox extension?Now that you mention, it could have been a firefox extension. During the installation of FF v.2 I was alerted to the presence of an incompatible (i.e. corrupt?) extension from the prior installation (can't remember what it was), and presented with an opportunity to install a current, compatible extension which I did.I periodically run Ad-Aware and SpyBot and while I admit to a teensy bit paranoia about them, I figure if there were something sinister behind them, I would have probably read about it by now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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