[SOLVED] Viruses through Firefox?

Its a fact there are a lot of bad sites, and i suppose there always will be.

Why not try Kaspersky 2010 Internet Security? You can try it for 30 days at no cost. My protection experience has been very good over ten years and with 50+ users. Even the normal annual cost is low, A$39.95 is a small annual cost. Even less on some eBay deals.

It seems that Nibiru2012 also has good experience.

NoActiveDesktopChanges (Hijack.DisplayProperties) as detected by Malwarebytes is a false positive, in case you come across that.

I always wondered about that one. Thanks for the heads up.

I had tried Malwarebytes a couple of times and the above was the ONLY thing it ever found. Malwarebytes is way too intrusive for me!

Balloon this, balloon that, question this, question that... blah blah blah. No thanks.

Malwarebytes has saved many users from having to reinstall their OS. It's a powerful tool for anyone to have. I'm going to place it on a thumb drive with CCleaner for a portable app that requires no install. Remember Ed that we were helping recently? When he reinstalls, the first thing after booting into Windows would be to click onto Computer, go to the thumb drive, and open and run Malwarebytes. Core even mentioned that bad code hides in the memory, and the memory is the first place that these scanners check. You need the scanner to be intrusive to be able to find any trace of malware. Sure, there may be false positives, but at least you know the program is actually searching for bad code.

I don't need it. ESET Smart Security v4 does exactly the same thing!

It ALWAYS scans the memory on boot up. Besides, any decent system security program will do the same. ESET updates itself several times a day, at least 4-6 at last count.

No Thanks! ESET is one of the top 3 apps out there and I'll stick with it.

My addons are Adblock Plus, IE Tab, No Script, Better Privacy and WOT. All of these addons are for security purposes. Too, Adblock Plus helps your web page load faster, it doesn't load the ads. Better Privacy only kicks in when closing the browser, it deletes long term tracking cookies. No Script is one of the best security measures you can get in a browser, it all but eliminates click-jacking attempts. WOT helps you determine the safety of a given web page, it warns you of sites with a bad reputation. And IE Tab is for the sites that requires IE to use (which are few). So, as you can see, I have the bare minimum of addons to Firefox. Core made a vaild point, 2 of the items found (Hijack..whatever), were false positives. The other one, I never had the chance to write it down, as I've configured Avast to abort connection with any page that is potentially infected. I have all levels set to the max, and every last file scanned before I see it. There is a setting pre-checked to skip OS files that are clean, I unchecked that, and another one that only checks certain files upon updating. But it was those two Hijack ones that caught my attention. Everything is fine now. I've scanned my system fully with every tool that I have. Windows 7 is a great OS, the best ever, but you must maintain Windows to keep it running smoothly. It takes a lot of work to do so, but you're rewarded with a system that performs the way it should. Thanks to all for your input to my issue, and I hope the very best for you all.

I myself am not a huge fan of any AV or Firewall Suite application's. For the most part there are a few decent stand alone programs that work quite well. I find that Suite applications are huge resource hogs and I have had problems with them with running business software. Give me the free AVG AV and the stand alone Outpost firewall and I am a happy man. And I like it when application just do one thing well and my resources are left alone. But this is just my opinion.

Thanks Cat, I have all the add-on mentioned except the IE tab and from the other posts it's looking like some false positives from Malwarbytes which I've seen before.

Yes, it looks like that particular one is a false positive. Perhaps that's why MSE & Avast 5.0 (I have both) didn't alarm me to it. But anytime something alerts me, I jump onto it. I actually did research the one (Hijack, Display, Pro) and the answers were varied. Some said it was a false positive, while others said that immediate action should be taken. So then it comes down to which side to believe, the ones that said false positive outnumbered the ones who said that my system was infected. I trust the advice from long timers on this fourm such as you, and there's others whose opinion I trust. I guess what Malwarebytes is doing is hitting the panic button on the slightest thing, which isn't always bad. They have caught tracking cookies and deleted them. They're not my main AV, but my backup, "just in case" the others miss something. Thanks to all, and consider this thread solved and closed. There's other members that needs issues solved, and that's where I'm headed now.