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On Sat, Jul 7, 2018 at 11:36 AM Roger Critchlow <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry, Nick, I was sweltering too hard to answer. Been a rough week in > Boston Harbor. And the boat goes no where until we repair the rusted > through exhaust pipe on the engine. Filled our engine room with diesel > exhaust last weekend. > > But life is good when it cools down a bit as it has today. > > We should do coffee? > > -- rec -- > > > On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 11:06 AM Nick Thompson <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Roger, >> >> >> >> Thanks. I wonder …. . The problem does not happen in I.E., but it has >> stopped happening in FF, now as well. The problem did seem to survive two >> clean opens of FF, but more recently has stopped. To be clear, what was >> happening was multiple *explorer* windows being opened, but it was >> something in FF that seemed to be opening them. It never happened when FF >> was closed. This is entirely separate from the problem of firefox opening >> several processes and grabbing a >> >> Gig of memory just for fun, which seems to be perhaps irremediable. >> Perhaps it’s time give up on Firefox. >> >> >> >> Anyway, all is calm at the moment. I assume you are out in the gulf of >> Maine somewhere, where you should be, in a lovely chilly fog. Here in the >> MIB, when are on our sixth day over 90. >> >> >> >> Take care, >> >> >> >> N >> >> Nicholas S. Thompson >> >> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology >> >> Clark University >> >> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ >> >> >> >> *From:* Friam [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Roger >> Critchlow >> *Sent:* Thursday, July 05, 2018 10:02 AM >> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < >> [email protected]> >> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] bizarre Fire Fox behavior? >> >> >> >> There's some kind of exploit running around that tries to freeze your >> browser by repeated file saves while posting a "You have been PWNED! Call >> 1-800-xxx-yyyy for help!" message, then they talk you out of your credit >> card number, and so on, and so forth. Affects several browsers, there were >> earlier fixes but they're broken at the moment. It sounds like your >> computer is too old for the exploit to work correctly. >> >> >> >> The immediate cure is to delete the window/tab that is running the >> exploit, if you can identify it. When you start firefox is it loading a >> collection of saved tabs? >> >> >> >> -- rec -- >> >> >> >> On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 11:53 PM Nick Thompson <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> After a time, when Firefox has been running, Windows Explorer begins >> spawning new windows explorer processes (as indicated by the Windows Task >> Manager) at a frantic rate, roughly two per second. They are all a little >> over 2k but not exactly the same. When I close Firefox it does not stop, >> but if I don’t open Firefox, it does not start. It does not happen with >> Windows Internet Explorer. Those are the only two browsers I have. >> >> >> >> Has anybody experienced anything like this? Eventually it uses up >> enormous amounts of memory on the machine and I suppose will ultimately >> crash it. >> >> >> >> N >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Nicholas S. Thompson >> >> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology >> >> Clark University >> >> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ >> >> >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >> >
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