Possible virus?(Firefox)

I opened firefox After about an hour of the system being in standby and in theSponsored Links row there were 2 new entries

http:/ /bom07s30-in-x03. 1e100. net/ (I dismantled the URLs to prevent accidental clicks)

pnbomb-ac-in-x0e.1e100

I right clicked and searched in Google and it showed up as this

pnbomb-ac-in-x0e.1e100 Sponsoredit disappeared after a while, just to be sure I ran sudo lsof -iand noticed firefox was connected to this url

maa05s15-in-x03.1e100.net

I am not sure if am infected or this is just a glitch(I obviously didn’t click on the links)

NOOBMASTER,

wtf are Sponsored Links, and why do you need them?

StefanT,

Sponsored links: Mozilla gets money for AD links showing up below the search url on the new tabs page. If you do not disable them (they are on by default).

nanook,

@NOOBMASTER @Artemis_Mystique So google can make money.

possiblylinux127,

I would go the nuclear route if I were you

mub,

Fuckin" aye!

arai_aroi,

Others have answered your question. I would like to add that when you want to “dismantle” the URL, there is a practice in cyber security called URL Defanging. Protocols are escaped, such that http becomes hxxp. Other significant symbols that are :// becomes [://] and . becomes [.]

Combining these, your URL becomes: hxxp[://]bom07s30-in-x03[.]1e100[.]net/

Which will be safer for others to navigate. It will take an extra effort to revert it back to the functional URL. Tools like CyberChef can perform this action if you seek a more streamlined solution.

BaumGeist,

TIL. I didn’t know there was a standard, and I’ve never seen “hxxp”, although the rest is familiar looking.

OddFed, (edited )
@OddFed@feddit.de avatar

Firefox is a browser to surf the web. Nothing to worry about. (/s)

backhdlp,
@backhdlp@iusearchlinux.fyi avatar

Do you know what a post body is?

OddFed,
@OddFed@feddit.de avatar

I wanted to make a simple joke.

somethingsomethingidk,

Search 1e100, it’s a google thing

Artemis_Mystique,

Yes but why did it show up In the Sponsored links row?

somethingsomethingidk,

From mozilla. I’m guessing that the links were hosted/owned/etc. by google. When your system resumed it only partially loaded the sponsored links and you were left with the text of the url.

Your system is fine security wise, but privacy wise pinging google servers everytime you open a new tab is not ideal. This type of stuff is why I use Librewolf. Of course it’s up to you how much it bothers you. You can disable alot in vanilla firefox too.

Artemis_Mystique,

Thank you, but is there anyway I can check whether i am infected or not just for peace of mind?

EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted,
@EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Antivirus programs are generally the go-to method…

Atemu,
@Atemu@lemmy.ml avatar

Note that anti-virus can only assert that you are infected, not the opposite.

EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted,
@EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

You’re saying even if you’re not confirmed as infected, you’re not necessarily confirmed as not being infected. In other words, you’re talking about false positives.

Am I understanding you correctly?

NotJustForMe,

The opposite. Not found negatives. Anti-virus software can only tell you that it didn’t find a virus, not that there aren’t any.

EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted,
@EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Yeah, what you just said is what I said I thought you said. (@_)

We’re on the same page; it’s just that wording is hard.

Also, you all were right; I was wrong. Admission given. 👍

Suspiciousbrowsing,

I think you're on the same page, but mean false negatives not false positive.
False negatives being the potential that you have the virus, but the scanner wasn't able to identify it so returned a "you're all clean" when in fact, you've got a dirty virus and should have listened in health class.

EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted,
@EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Yeah.

Like I said, works are hard. Lol.

RadicalEagle,

No. Peace of mind comes from trusting, not from knowing.

somethingsomethingidk,

Install clamav and run a scan. You will probably get false positives.

For instance the gnome polkit agent has a “malicious” image that it tries to load at start and if it succeeds it kills the program before it can run. This is to keep an actually malicious icon from being used. I spent days on that one lol

Artemis_Mystique,

But isnt clam AV only for detecting Windows viruses?

redcalcium,

Depends on the malware database you use, but out of the box it’ll catch wide range of stuff, even linux malwares (which is rare but exists and mostly infect vulnerable web servers).

TexMexBazooka,

Not with 100% certainty outside of nuking your system. You’re probably fine.

mozz,
@mozz@mbin.grits.dev avatar

Librewolf Librewolf Librewolf

callyral,
@callyral@pawb.social avatar

*it’s a googol thing

breakcore,

1e100.net is google’s catch-all domain. Many of their services run under this domain.

Read more here : support.google.com/faqs/answer/174717

It is a geeky pun, 1e100 is scientific notation for 1 followed by a hundred zeroes. This number is called a googol, which is similar sounding to google.

h3rm17,

Indeed Google is named after the googol

po_tay_toes,
@po_tay_toes@lemmy.sambands.net avatar

There goes my hope of Google being named after gabagool.

akwd169,

I’ll have the gabagool

The gabagool

breadsmasher,
@breadsmasher@lemmy.world avatar

installed any extensions recently?

Artemis_Mystique,

No, I only use Ublock origin which i had installed Approx 4-5 months ago

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