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 Sponsored
it disappeared after a while, just to be sure I ran
sudo lsof -i
and 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)
Yes but why did it show up In the Sponsored links row?
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.
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Thank you, but is there anyway I can check whether i am infected or not just for peace of mind?
No. Peace of mind comes from trusting, not from knowing.
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
But isnt clam AV only for detecting Windows viruses?
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).
Not with 100% certainty outside of nuking your system. You’re probably fine.
Antivirus programs are generally the go-to method…