[GRLUG] PerformanceOptimizer.com?

[Ben Rousch]

It is most likely an advertisement pop-up coming from the web page that
comes up when you first open your browser. Try setting your home page to a
blank page or something friendly like Google and see if it still happens.

On 9/24/07, Jason Kisner <airplanejay at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Whenever I open Firefox I keep on getting this error saying my computer's
> performance is low and it prompts me to go to PerformanceOptimizer.com. My
> experience with stuff like this is usually the cause of some virus. Now, to
> me, this is unheard of in the Linux community, so I was wondering if this
> was something I should worry about.
>
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