[TriLUG] Virus
Peter Neilson via TriLUG
trilug at trilug.org
Wed Feb 28 09:41:53 EST 2018
Shouldn't that be "awk '{print $2}' " to get the PID???
Or is my system just weird?
On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 08:27:57 -0500, William Sutton via TriLUG
<trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
> If running Windows, you should be able to use the task manager to find
> the browser and kill its process.
>
> If running Linux, you should be able to open a terminal,
> "ps -efwww |grep -i fire |grep -v grep |awk '{print $1}'" and kill the
> resultant PID. May have to kill -9 the PID.
>
> That saves rebooting.
>
> William Sutton
>
> On Wed, 28 Feb 2018, Brian Grawburg via TriLUG wrote:
>
>>
>> I clicked on an innocent image on Facebook and up popped a porno
>> picture and warning that I needed to immediately contact tech support
>> to get rid of it. Of course I knew it was a scam but I had to reboot to
>> close out Mozilla. I scanned my system last night but I'm worried this
>> might happen again....I'd hate to be showing someone at work something
>> on the Web here at work and have this darn thing appear again. Where is
>> this thing lurking on my system?
>>
>> Brian Grawburg
>> Wilson, NC
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