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A new threat that's popped up recently uses flash banner ads to take over your computer's clipboard through the Mozilla Firefox Web browser. You'll know your computer, either Mac or PC, is infected once your clipboard will only paste a link to a site that sells a bogus security program. Many people are led to the sites with the infected ads through spam e-mails purporting to come from CNN or MSNBC. It seems you can get rid of the infection by restarting your computer or killing the Firefox process, and downloading FlashBlockers for the browser can only help.
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Subscribe to commentsnicoleNov 6th 2008 4:25PM
i have that web browser!!!im never using it again
SniffDec 4th 2008 6:13PM
Yep. And you should get rid of your Windows computer, iPhone, oh and by the way, never check your email either.
I'd recommend getting a second opinion before writing off Firefox on the basis of this one vulnerability and this one article.
http://www.google.com/search?q=is+firefox+safer
Anyway, people that write computer software notice problems like this, and they create fixes for them. Firefox, just for instance, has been updated THREE times since the date of the original article on this site pertaining to this virus.