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Old 07-14-2004, 04:36 PM   #1
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Have I been hacked or am I just being paranoid?


Okay, this is on a fresh install of Slack10. Now, sometimes Firefox loads up a webpage without me even touching the keyboard. Am I just being paranoid here? Also, I am sitting behind a wireless router.
 
Old 07-14-2004, 04:51 PM   #2
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Router Access Logs

Can you check your wireless router and see what MAC Address have been loged and match them up against your systems ...to see if anyone had been using you access
 
Old 07-14-2004, 05:13 PM   #3
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Ehh, Nope. Its a Microsoft Wireless Base Station.
 
Old 07-14-2004, 10:31 PM   #4
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Firefox loads up a webpage without me even touching the keyboard
Does this happen only at login time OR randomly?
 
Old 07-15-2004, 03:05 AM   #5
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Does Firefox just open up your home page or the last page you visited? If so, it may be that you have checked the "save session on exit" box. Just a thought.
 
Old 07-15-2004, 07:51 AM   #6
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Does Firefox just open up your home page or the last page you visited? If so, it may be that you have checked the "save session on exit" box. Just a thought.
It acts like a random back button. Like yesterday I hit the KDE homepage. Then when I was on a different page, it jumped back to the KDE homepage.

And I can't find that "save session on exit" box.
 
Old 07-15-2004, 09:38 AM   #7
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Like yesterday I hit the KDE homepage. Then when I was on a different page, it jumped back to the KDE homepage.
That could be a mouse mischief too...Do you use a wheel mouse?
 
Old 07-15-2004, 03:19 PM   #8
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I use the Synaptics Touchpad on my laptop :P
 
Old 07-15-2004, 08:02 PM   #9
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ahh, yes that happens to me too, i find it very annoying

i believe it is because you have some preference were firefox will reload/go back ( i dunno which one? ) whenever u hit the middle mouse button

sometimes if u have many tabs open, it will reload a page that was previously in another tab

maybe if u have many windows open too, that might cause it to load up pages from your other windows whenever you unexpectedly click the middle mouse button
 
  


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