eBay, oh my eBay... and fookin Firefox 3.5

[Susan]

Woke up today to discover that my eBay account had been hijacked to send unsolicited messages to users. Thankfully, not to list or bid on anything. But I panicked and it was a pain in the ass! I spent over an hour working on reclaiming my account. Thankfully, none of my personal info had been changed and their Live Help is pretty good. But my computer was acting funny (damn firefox 3.5!) and they'd put a hold on my account for which I had to contact them directly to get removed so I could change the password. BAH. I didn't have my new credit card # hooked into there either. So I changed my email account password and my eBay password to 2 different things. Thinking about changing my PayPal again, but that one was different anyways and is so complicated I had to write it down... Whatever. I'll change it again.

But that was just the beginning of my problems. Firefox was stuck on a loop at eBay. I couldn't access the My eBay page or sign in properly. I could sign in with IE and with the old Firefox on my laptop. So then it was a question as to whether or not Firefox 3.5 is fucked or if I have spyware and/or a virus. Ran spybot and nothing. Updated Avira and I'm doing a virus scan right now but so far it's not picking anything up. So basically...

DAMN YOU FIREFOX 3.5!!

You know what? I have been having issues with it since I installed it. I liked the new tab interface but enough is enough. It kept taking ages to start up, and then it would close itself for no apparent reason. I thought it was my messed up mouse (which is breaking down recently too). But no. So today I finally backed up my bookmarks and uninstalled and put FireFox 3.0 back on here. Works great on my laptop. I'm happy to go back to it.

Mozilla is normally awesome. I still like it more than IE or Netscape (Haven't tried Chrome yet). But Firefox 3.5 is shit. I know I'm not the only person having issues with it. Worst browser update ever. >_<

Sigh. And I have a mosquito bite on my leg that is driving me nuts. Damn you AfterBite! WORK! Why do you fail me now? >_<

[Typedink]

Thanks for the heads up. I did not even want to update to FF 3 but it updates on its own, gonna have to make sure it did not update to 3.5. As for spyware or a virus, look out for Vundo. That sucker is on my dads laptop and I did everything to get that off and it just got worse. You couldn't even go to a address you wanted to cause it would redirect you, and searching google you would click on a link and it go somewhere other than where it was supposed to and a lot of other mess. I worked on it for hours and in the end it just got worse, it wont even boot into windows anymore. I'm gonna have to factory restore and they will lose everything on the laptop, pictures, music, things like that, but I can't think of anything else to do.

Have you checked Firefox's webstie/forum to see if anyone else is having these issues, see if perhaps its something that is going on with others that way you can figure out if its FF or a virus.

[Susan]

I did read about the slower program loading times on the FF forums. The only page I was having a redirect loop on was eBay, but I didn't check anywhere else really. First I've noticed the problem too. Everything is working fine (including eBay) since I went back to 3.0, which works prefectly.

Thanks for the heads up on Vundo, though. I'll check for it! I'm going to get around to backing up my music today. Probably my pics and desktops as well. I don't want a repeat of my HD's last crash (though last time I took it to a repair shop and they were able to pull 95% of my data off the dead HD, so it turned out okay).

[Typedink]

My dad's laptop has not been lucky, its not the first time I had to factory restore it. I think the issue is the kids use it sometimes too, and my sisters are just Net Stupid. They are idiots when it comes to virus' and anything they need to be careful for. They just... I don't know surf like 13 year olds.

When FF3 came out I put it on my sisters laptop and it would lock up her laptop to 100% cpu, thats when I decided no FF3 for me, but it updated on its own and it seems ok. 3.5 definate no for now.

I use Chrome for everything mostly now, I like it. You should try it you might like it. Its got no real add-ons yet but they are working on that and themes for the future, but even without I still prefer it.

[ech0]

I worried a lot about account takeovers on Ebay and Paypal. I went ahead and bought a Paypal Security key ($5).

Here's the link. In my opinion, it's worth the slight cost and slight hassle at login.

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=xpt/Marketing_CommandDriven/securitycenter/PayPalSecurityKey-outside