I have a bunch of melware viruses, around 24, how do i get rid of them

Bug #669292 reported by JoHanna Peterson
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
firefox-3.5 (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox-3.5

I went on a site but clicked back when it said it could harm your computer, then about 20 or so minutes later, it sent a message saying i had viruses. how do i get rid of them?

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Oct 31 20:58:08 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.5 3.5.8+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-20.58-generic
SourcePackage: firefox-3.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic i686

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JoHanna Peterson (bubblesjanssen) wrote :
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Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur) wrote :

Thanks for reporting this issue.

I suspect you've visited a website that contains a hoax warning to try and trick you into purchasing antivirus/antispyware software.

If you get more warning like this, please feel free to reopen this bug with detailed instructions that include what sites you've visited in order for us to reproduce the issue.

Thanks.

visibility: private → public
Changed in firefox-3.5 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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