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noscript, should be standard equipment on any browser.
Thanks for keeping the thread open while I continue my education. I'm loving the noscript, learning fast and I'll never surf without it again. The links to POP and related stuff were much appreciated, a great way to share info, that cleared up one mystery, one less thing to worry about. I've been working on securing things on this computer, making some progress but I ran into an issue that I didn't see coming. Yesterday the wireshark was having some display problems, I think OK, no problem and do an un-re-install of the program (life should be so easy). Anyway, I notice a usbcap option, that was new to the updated version I had... Long story short, as soon as I rebooted and logged in I discovered that my wireless mouse had decided to quit working, same for my corded razor super deluxe gaming mouse, although the power to the cooling pad still worked through a usb port that was otherwise useless. I played around with settings, drivers etc. ran Mbam, came up clean. To me, in the moment, it seemed like I had messed up something on the reinstall and just needed to sort it out. I'm thinking, just do a system restore and save a little time since I'm not making any ground, (being digitally challenged can be challenging as that's where I found that I had no restore points saved). At one point, while giving my wife a hand, I decide to run Nortons rootscan (PE) I'll attach a shot of the detections, copying the log is eluding my skill set at the moment, but the detections were interesting. Although the dates on the files were 5-26 I'm thinking either that was misnamed on purpose or I had a virus just waiting for a trigger. Of course that would be a "Lottery winning longshot" considering the point at which my usb problem surfaced. I always try to not confuse correlational with causation but as soon as I fixed those two detections and rebooted, you guessed it, the mouses and usb situation returned to nominal, (nominal, I love that word). Afterwards, I also ran the Mbar out of curiosity, but that one came up clean.
I'm still seeing connections in the wireshark that I don't prefer to see, I'll attach a shot of a couple packets as an example, just in case you have any thoughts on what I'm looking at. I hate seeing redirector mentioned but I realize that could be legit.
I'm working on learning how to use the shark and VT, hoping to get some pointers from those communities as I go as there is a lot of information to filter out to find what your looking for. I'll follow up after I run a full system scan and hear back from Norton.
:bigthumb: The noscript caught my wifes facebook trying to run script on our banking page as soon as it loaded, that seemed beyond intrusive and it was a pleasure to block it.:)