Friday, July 13, 2012

Text Enhance trojan house in Mozilla Firefox

Today, I was very annoyed, twice.  While working on my new moodle instance on my new moodle server, I was greeted with the very annoying Text Enhance "virus". Not technically a virus, but a Trojan horse.  After googling a bit about "how to remove text enhance".  I found that it had installed itself on both of my computers in FF (V 13.0.1). 

It installed as an Add-on.  When I went to Tools | Add-ons, I had a list of a few add-ons, im sure all of which except one, were legit.  I emptied my browser cache and started disabling the add-ons one at a time, while refreshing my browser window after each, until i caused the annoying underlining (text enhancing) to dissapear.

It had registered itself as

Shockwave Flash 11.3.300.362.

Very annoying.

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