[GRLUG] PerformanceOptimizer.com?

[Jason Kisner]

I think it was a pop-up and I accidently hit the wrong buttons. I have it
set at "Show my windows and tabs from last time". I think it may be "fixed",
but not sure yet. I'll keep watching to see if that pop-up shows up again.

On 9/24/07, Ben Rousch <brousch at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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