Reese

Ok, Call me paranoid. I run security pretty tight on my computer. Always up to date, I run updated firefox with noscript and I don't just allow any old website to run scripts. Well, today, amazon.com's video-on-demand needed me to download Flash 10. Yeah I know, It was released 2 months ago.. Way to keep updated. Actually didn't even realize flashplayer 10 was out because this was the first site I'd ran into that told me to update.
ANYWAY, I go to the adobe site and allow it to run it's shit which promptly installs it's download manager, downloads the plugin and asks to reboot firefox. I let it and as the pages reload I get a popup for wxw.vidshadow.cxm. It's odd because the only 2 tabs I have open are Amazon and Adobe. I google the website and see others saying it has a browser exploit.
So, Where did the popup come from, Not from amazon or adobe. So I update Spybot and search. It finds nothing but cookies. I update Malwarebytes and search. It returns a single false positive. I confirmed it on their forum. I download, update and run super anti-spyware and it finds nothing. I also run an AVG virus scan which finds nothing.

So what's the deal? I doubt amazon or adobe caused the popup. I don't think 3 different malware scanners and a virus scanner would miss something. So far it seems to be a one time thing but still, it should have happened at all.

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