Let me give you a quick fact about firefox first. >>Source
Firefox 3 Reaches 20 Million downloads in 7 Days, Opera - 4.5 Million Downloads in 5 Days
Open Firefox 3, Hit Ctrl+T and type “about:config”
1. Disable Extension Compatibility Checks
extensions.checkCompatibility = False
extensions.checkUpdateSecurity = False
2. Location Bar (Set number Auto Complete URL at Address Bar)
This is good for trimming down the huge auto complete bar, the default is 12
browser.urlbar.maxRichResults = #
There are lots of autorun monster viruses out there and its very very annoying. Majority of the viruses around here are spread through USB storage medias these days. And what most of the people does is either formatting the windows or the flash drive.
So in this tutorial i am going to explain you how to clean the virus manually and how to disable auto-running these malicious viruses when you double click on the icon of the drive.
First thing you will need to do is to open up Task Manager and close all process run by your user accounts, except explorer.exe and your browser. (if firefox its firefox.ex and in IE IEXPLORER.EXE)
Then Run (Start Menu > Run) “msconfig”. Move to startup tab disable all unknown files in the startup. If not sure click “Disable All”. Exit but donot restart,
I am on Windows Xp Professional with Service pack two and I have got a USB Hard Disk infected with an autorun monster which we are going to find out and clean.
This doesn’t look suspicious. Cox’ there ain’t any Autoplay option even in the right-click menu. But when i select open, opens in a new window. My settings are not configured that way. That makes me very suspicious about this.
So lets check out.
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