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Possible virus?(Firefox) (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago by Artemis_Mystique@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I opened firefox After about an hour of the system being in standby and in theSponsored Links row there were 2 new entries

http:/ /bom07s30-in-x03. 1e100. net/ (I dismantled the URLs to prevent accidental clicks)

pnbomb-ac-in-x0e.1e100

I right clicked and searched in Google and it showed up as this

pnbomb-ac-in-x0e.1e100 Sponsored it disappeared after a while, just to be sure I ran sudo lsof -i and noticed firefox was connected to this url

maa05s15-in-x03.1e100.net

I am not sure if am infected or this is just a glitch(I obviously didn't click on the links)

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[–] somethingsomethingidk@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Install clamav and run a scan. You will probably get false positives.

For instance the gnome polkit agent has a "malicious" image that it tries to load at start and if it succeeds it kills the program before it can run. This is to keep an actually malicious icon from being used. I spent days on that one lol

[–] Artemis_Mystique@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

But isnt clam AV only for detecting Windows viruses?

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 2 points 9 months ago

Depends on the malware database you use, but out of the box it'll catch wide range of stuff, even linux malwares (which is rare but exists and mostly infect vulnerable web servers).