Re: How do I stop this malware

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Technically it does, you just have to figure out what the os process
is and kill it, each tab is a separate os process.    I have killed
weather channel with kill -9 many times(it is easy to find it as it
leaks ram and is the only multiple-gb firefox thread).

If you have a 2nd firefox window open (and can switch to it) then you
can do "about:performance" it will list all of the separate
processes/tabs and you can click on X and that one tab goes
empty/stops and you can go back to the original firefox window  and x
the tab itself without reloading it.

On Thu, Oct 5, 2023 at 9:10 PM Joe Wulf via users
<users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> FF doesn't provide the fidelity to kill 'just one tab'.
>
> On Thursday, October 5, 2023 at 10:06:30 PM EDT, Michael Hennebry <hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 5 Oct 2023, Roger Heflin wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Oct 5, 2023 at 1:11?PM Michael Hennebry
> > <hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Sat, 30 Sep 2023, George N. White III wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 11:19?AM Michael Hennebry <
> >>> hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >>> This is trying to cure the disease by eliminating a symptom.  You don't
> >>> know what is
> >>> happening behind that full screen.
> >>
> >> Going fullscreen is part if what makes
> >> it hard to even try to make it go away.
> >>
> >> The malware does three things:
> >> 1. It shows an image.
> >> 2. It goes fullscreen.
> >> 3. It disables buttons.
> >>
> >> Preventing 1 would seem a really bad idea.
> >> I'd like to prevent 2 or 3.
> >
> > Did you try alt-tab to switch to another application (say a terminal)
> > to kill the tab from the command line?
> >
> > I don't think the full screen trick inside firefox can stop that, and
> > I think I have hit a few of these half-assed websites before, but
> > alt-tab must have worked for me to bypass them and kill the tab.
>
> I can switch to another virtual console,
> but do not know how to kill just one tab.
> I can got out of it by disconnecting the ethernet cable,
> but would rather disconnect with the GUI.
>
> --
> Michael  hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> "Occasionally irrational explanations are required"  --  Luke Roman
>
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