It is interesting Pooh. Based on your post I downloaded and ran the program. At the moment this is still a BETA program, in other words it is being tested by those of us who elect to use it. Once all the kinks are worked out the final product will be available no doubt. On my computer it searched all 3 hard drive partitions and found 10 insecure programs and 4 end of life. However those tagged as end of life will not be removed, these are old programs I use and will continue to take the small risk they might pose. The live link to the right of each entry takes you to the needed update site for that particular program. It is one more program running in the background. Time wil tell if it stays on my computer but it is an interesting program

it will redirect you and will take you to one of the sites that is auto installing the various versions of antivirus xp 2008/2009 or what ever they happen to be naming them, which are carrying many types of infections with it. This has gotten so prevalent now that the bad guys have discovered this method of taking over websites that everyone is trying to put out warnings to the community to try to make people aware if they see this suddenly happening to them NOT to click on any of the redirected pages, Not to buy any of the fake programs, but instead to immediately close out all instances of the browser, in some cases that will flush the urls out of the clipboard but not always in some it takes a reboot of the pc to clear the urls from the clipboard from what I have read. The best thing you can do is be very careful where you surf and where you click. If you use firefox you can use the no script add-on set as shown. The forums have been seeing many many cases of these exploits and several got them from very legit websites that had been hacked and a redirect put on the site. gillian don't panic about it but it is something we all need to be very aware of since it has been so on the increase. Hopefully adobe and the browsers can get some method out to help with this soon. It is better to be aware of this kind of thing so we know to come for help asap if we know we have been exposed to one of the redirects. If you see anything pop up saying it is scanning your pc and that you have infections or anything like that do NOT click anywhere on the page, close the browser or just go to start and reboot it. From what I have read the earlier versions of firefox are also affected. Also it is a good idea to go to your pc to your adobe and check for updates. You can also use the secunia inspector to see if it shows you have out of date programs. Updates should hopefully come out soon. The Secunia Online Software Inspector I just wanted to post so y'all would be aware of this stuff, don't freak out, just be alert. Always better to be prepared and educated than caught off guard.

Hi, joann_fla. What types of things are you trying to open with Firefox from your e-mail? Are you referring to URL links embedded in an e-mail? I hope the following isn't confusing. It is based on my testing of URLs created in FF and IE. You may be experiencing something similar with subscriptions of forum posts. When I add a URL to an e-mail in Firefox and do not format it as a URL (click the URL symbol and paste the address), it will not be clickable with either Firefox or IE. Conversely, pasting the same URL in an e-mail created in IE9 automatically formats as clickable.

Always stop and breathe if you have this happen do not panic and start clicking on the screen, that is exactly what they want to happen and also never call the numbers. If on a pc hit control alt delete and go to applications and end task on all the open apps shown. This will close the browser safely with out clicking on anything. The problem with clicking any where including the x to close can be linked to an install instruction rather than what you think it is. Run an updated malwarebytes scan and your antivirus program scan as well as a good online antivirus scan like this bitdefender free scanner http://www.bitdefender.com/scanner/online/free.html Right now there are several fake ransomeware drive bys happening. just going to a legit webpage that has a nefarious ad link it it can trigger it, but NOTHING happens to your computer till you start clicking on something or calling the numbers. Do control alt delete or shut down the computer. It can be very scary especially with the ones that have audio and start alerting you loudly and in a very scary way that you are infected or worse. If you get a true ransomeware that is a different animal and in most cases will take a complete re install of the operating system and loss of all your files, unless of course you are very smart and keep an image update of your current system, then you just reinstall from your image.