I am paranoid about malware. I go to the Mozilla site, click download and up pops a box that says its from tux.rainside.sk Am I being hijacked?

bottom line I am not sure if I am getting a real version of Firefox or has someone redirected me to a rogue site that will install malware? Why wouldn't the dialog box say run or save a file from mozilla.com?

Mozilla uses mirrors from all over the world for downloading and updating Firefox. tux.rainside.sk is one of the places that is used, it is one of the primary sites for downloading Firefox in Europe.
http://www.mozilla.org/community/mirrors.html

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A google search would have yielded the answer
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~Lyssa

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Do other about: pages work properly?
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What can I do about an iPhone 4S where the on/off button has quit working?

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I've read that OS X Lion will require 2 g's of memory, but the official site says nothing about memory. What's the case?

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SOOO... Am I crazy? Or what?

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The most recent java hole, Windows only, required zero action from user except for a web page to load.
Security is gradually being taken more seriously.
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Can I safely transfer all my music on my iPhone to my new Macbook pro or do I need to use a Time Machine to transfer my old iTunes to my new laptop? Am paranoid about losing music

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technologically_illiterate wrote:
Title says it all. I have had a bad experience with losing my music before and I'm very paranoid about transfers, so I want to make sure I go about it right. I would like to do it myself if possibly and quickly.
The iphone is not a backup device.
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I never ever do anything whatsoever to look after my battery health.
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I hope I helped

Pop-ups. I have deleted cookies, checked security etc. worried about malware.

Hello!
I recently tried to reinstall MS word but I think I must have come across a fraudulent site. Now I get a pop-up almost every click! The pop-ups seem quite intelligent, for example, if I search malware I get a pop-up for MacKeeper (which I would never click on), or if I go to Netflix I get Megaflix an so on..
It is criminally expensive to speak to a specialist on the phone, and I have already deleted cookies, uninstalled any software I don't recognise, checked security settings, reinstalled adblocker; I don't know what else I can do...
My browser is Safari, but I checked Chrome and got the same results.
HELP ME?!

You may have installed the "VSearch" trojan, perhaps under a different name. Remove it as follows.
Malware is constantly changing to get around the defenses against it. The instructions in this comment are valid as of now, as far as I know. They won't necessarily be valid in the future. Anyone finding this comment a few days or more after it was posted should look for more recent discussions or start a new one.
Back up all data before proceeding.
Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
/Library/LaunchAgents/com.vsearch.agent.plist
Right-click or control-click the line and select
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from the contextual menu.* A folder should open with an item named "com.vsearch.agent.plist" selected. Drag the selected item to the Trash. You may be prompted for your administrator login password.
Repeat with each of these lines:
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.vsearch.daemon.plist
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.vsearch.helper.plist
/Library/LaunchDaemons/Jack.plist
Restart the computer and empty the Trash. Then delete the following items in the same way:
/Library/Application Support/VSearch
/Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/Jack
/System/Library/Frameworks/VSearch.framework
~/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/ConduitNPAPIPlugin.plugin
Some of these items may be absent, in which case you'll get a message that the file can't be found. Skip that item and go on to the next one.
From the Safari menu bar, select
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Uninstall any extensions you don't know you need, including any that have the word "Spigot," "Trovi," or "Conduit" in the description. If in doubt, uninstall all extensions. Do the equivalent for the Firefox and Chrome browsers, if you use either of those.
Reset the home page and default search engine in all the browsers, if it was changed.
This trojan is distributed on illegal websites that traffic in pirated content. If you, or anyone else who uses the computer, visit such sites and follow prompts to install software, you can expect much worse to happen in the future.
You may be wondering why you didn't get a warning from Gatekeeper about installing software from an unknown developer, as you should have. The reason is that this Internet criminal has a codesigning certificate issued by Apple, which causes Gatekeeper to give the installer a pass. Apple could revoke the certificate, but as of this writing, has not done so, even though it's aware of the problem. This failure of oversight has compromised both Gatekeeper and the Developer ID program. You can't rely on Gatekeeper alone to protect you from harmful software.
*If you don't see the contextual menu item, copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. In the Finder, select
          Go ▹ Go to Folder...
from the menu bar and paste into the box that opens by pressing command-V. You won't see what you pasted because a line break is included. Press return.

HELP! I had a Flashback Trojan/Malware on my Mac, I deleted it in trash, and now my Mac won't start.

At first my Mac Finder showed n81, n82, etc when you right-click it, instead of the commands " open new finder window", "hide" etc. I also noticed that sometimes, when I would go to sites such as facebook, it would redirect to a different site and I'd have to type in the address again to get to the site. Nothing else was wrong with it. Safari was not shutting down. It wasn't slow.
I did some research and found that I probably have the Flashback Trojan/Malware virus (whatever that is?) And so I followed what some people did (which got their mac fixed) .. I downloaded clamvax and tinkertool to find the malware (hidden files) and I deleted it in trash.. my computer seemed fine but when I restarted it, it wont turn on anymore.. the screen remains blue, the mouse could still be moved, but it stays that way..
did I lose all my files? am I being hacked as we speak? Is this virus very dangerous?! I am very paranoid and know nothing about this kind of stuff so please help!
BTW, the malware was from the game Farm Frenzy.. I have no idea how I got this... I never play online games.

@Thomas, Thanks for jumping in. I had to take my wife to a Doctor appointment and things went down hill from there.
I note that you are using Mac OS X 10.5.x. It's important to understand that the Java vulnerabilities that allowed this malware to get established on your machine cannot be fixed in 10.5.x. You would need to upgrade to at least 10.6 (Snow Leopard) to be able to get a version of Java with those vulnerabilities fixed. (Correct me if I'm wrong there, Al!)
That's 100% correct. Natalia has the distinction of being the first OS X 10.5 user confirmed to be infected by Flashback as far as I can tell. That operating system is becoming increasingly dangerous as the days go by. The OS has not been updated since Aug 2009 and the last Security and Java updates were in June 2011. There is no XProtect system and more and more third party's have dropped support in updating their Applications.
Natalia_ wrote:
I actually ran disk utility, and it said that the Macintosh HD is fine... I also tried safe mode/safe boot and did the FSCK command.. even that said that my laptop was fine? but somehow it still stays blue when I start up!
And I think it probably is fine, except that something is hanging during the initial loading process. Could be most anything.
As for my files, I appreciate your advice but I am scared I might do something wrong and mess my laptop up even more!
There is almost no chance of that and at this point it should be obvious to you that if the files on your laptop are that important, you should already have a backup.
I will take it to Apple and hopefully they can help me... because it seems that my files aren't wiped out... yet... It still displayed that I had my files in there..
One word of caution, then. I have been told that Apple has instructed their support folks not to attempt to clean up a malware infection. If I were you I wouldn't bring it up unless you have to.
By the way, while the disk was running, it was making very loud noises.. humming/grinding/etc... what could this mean?
Only one thing in my experience, you're hard drive is toast. All the more reason to try and get all the data you can off it immediately.
The only way to test it is to do a surface scan which Disk Utility cannot do. You would need a third party utility to do that. If it tells you there are bad sectors, that is 100% proof that it's going bad, as modern hard drives repair themselves of bad sectors until they run out of reserves to substitute.

I am paranoid about malware. I go to the Mozilla site, click download and up pops a box that says its from tux.rainside.sk Am I being hijacked?

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