For some reason my Firefox all of the sudden runs slow and just shows "white" when I try to access some sites (istock for example). Every now and then a full screen window will pop up (e.g.,
http://www.epoclick.com/?ad=1287502829). Did some virus infect my firefox?
I ran ClamXav and it didn't find anything.
I uninstalled firefox and the reinstalled it. That epoclick stuff still popsup.
What's this epoclick junk...and how do I get rid of it? (I'm running Snow Leopard on my iMac).
It's unlikely that it's a virus; there have been no confirmed reports of any viruses or worms that can infect Mac OS X.
Have you tried clearing out the caches and cookies in Firefox? Those would be preserved even through a reinstallation, so clearing them might help. It also could be popups attached to those web sites; epoclick seems to be an ad network, so it might not be something with your system at all. If you don't have the popup blocker turned on in Firefox, give that a try as well.
Very interesting! I'm having the same small, but annoying thing happend to me with Google Chrome. This after have instelled a few addons. Then deleting chrome in it's whole. But the problem persists after a reinstall. I have no idea what this is about.
If you know a site where it seems to be consistently appearing, post the URL and we can see if we get the same result. If so, then it's almost certainly tagged onto the web site and not a problem on your end.
The problem is independent of browser and OS
I have the same problem on Windows XP regardless of IE, FF or Safari.
Must be some kind of malware. Virusscan tool find nothing. Reinstalling FF did not help.
Must be a fairly new kind of attack, as whois for epoclick.com says domain was registered 2010-10-11.
If anybody succeeds in removing this nuisance, I would highly appreciate info on how you did it
If you have the same problem in Windows, then while I can't say it's not possible, it's highly unlikely to be malware on your system and is most likely a problem with the web sites themselves unless something has hijacked your router. My guess is that someone is attaching these to various web sites that are insufficiently protected, perhaps using invisible web "bugs".
There may be a new attack against Windows systems, but such an attack would not affect Mac OS X. That would require a separate attack, and I've seen nothing to indicate that any such attack has been given any sort of solid evidence, much less confirmed. There has been one trojan horse attack, DNSChanger, that caused redirection of Mac web browsers to other sites, but it required social engineering to get the user to him/herself download and install the malware. It's possible that there has been a new trojan, but I would want to see some sort of confirmation from the original poster that he/she recently downloaded and installed something from a web site before I would make such a judgement. Otherwise, unless s/he was actually running Windows on his/her Mac and it was under that OS that the problem occurred, the probability that the problem stems from a virus or worm attacking Mac OS X is very small, though by no means zero.
Jonas, I'm assuming you're seeing the same thing as John, but on both a Mac and a Windows system. Is that correct? If so, obviously it can't be malware, as Windows malware cannot affect the Mac OS and vice versa. You could have some kind of DNS poisoning, as Dave has indicated. There could be a problem with your ISP's DNS servers, or something might have messed with the DNS server settings on your wireless router. It's very unlikely that you've gotten DNS-changing malware simultaneously on both your Mac and Windows machines, especially since the Mac trojan that people call "DNS Changer" (aka, RSPlug) is screened against by Snow Leopard. (Details on these malware issues can be found on my [Mac Virus guide|http://www.reedcorner.net/thomas/guides/macvirus>.)
Of course, these things are all more elaborate explanations than necessary. Pop-up blockers are not perfect... I get "pop-unders" now and then in Safari, despite having the blocker turned on. Most likely, the sites you guys are visiting simply have ads that were written to bypass the common pop-up blockers. We'd be able to say one way or the other for sure if someone would post an exact location to visit to get one of these pop-ups, which nobody has yet done.
As for me I get most of my pop-ups from
http://www.kostdoktorn.se/ . However it is inconsitent, i get a popup once, I close the popup and click again then nothing. It seems to be completley random in my cases atleast.
Just now I got a popup from my most visited start-page in Chrome when I clicked on kostdoktorn.se
I have the same issue. I get popups despite popup blockers on a windows 7 machine, windows XP machine and a brand new Imac. I usually get the same pop up, although nothing ever loads. it is www.epoclick.com/?ad=1287549163
It definitely has something to do with www.goggle-analytics.com because I cannot visit any site that uses Goggle Analytics. It hangs while loading data from the site. Which is alot of sites. So basically, I can't visit half the web until I figure this out.
I am running a Netgear wireless router with the above 3 machines connected, 2 are wireless.
Wow...I just returned and am surprised at your responses.
I have not downloaded any other program other than Google Chrome about 2 weeks ago and ClamXav recently (due to this issue). I do not frequent strange sites (mainly design blogs, PSD tutorials and graphic arts related sites, e.g., smashingmagazine, istockphoto, gettyimages.com, graphic-exchange.com...etc).
The problem only happens in Firefox.
THIS IS SCARY...Firefox was open with other apps and suddenly the semi-transparent screen flowed down (from top to bottom) saying something to the effect of, "you need to shut down your computer because it encountered a problem. I couldn't do anything but hold the power button until it shut down.
I cannot make sense of the report but here it is...DO YOU SEE anything?
*You shut down the computer because of a problem.*
Interval Since Last Panic Report: 2682799 sec
Panics Since Last Report: 1
Anonymous UUID: A14CAA8E-BD80-4449-AD36-DFC8121486AF
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task
Mac OS version:
10F569
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 10.4.0: Fri Apr 23 18:28:53 PDT 2010; root:xnu-1504.7.4~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: iMac11,1 (Mac-F2268DAE)
@Thomas Reed
actually I only have Windows XP (no Apple OS). I came to this thread as it was matching a google query on epoclick looking for cause and solution to the problem.
Here's what I see wrong:{quote}
com.InternetSafety.kext.internetcontrol 7
com.intego.iokit.VirusBarrierService 10.5.9
com.pctools.iantivirus.kfs 1.0.1{quote}This malware you have loaded is notorious for taking down a system.
It appears that something tried to create more virtual memory than it was allowed.
droidtn wrote:
I have the same issue. I get popups despite popup blockers on a windows 7 machine, windows XP machine and a brand new Imac. I usually get the same pop up, although nothing ever loads. it is www.epoclick.com/?ad=1287549163
It definitely has something to do with www.goggle-analytics.com because I cannot visit any site that uses Goggle Analytics. It hangs while loading data from the site. Which is alot of sites. So basically, I can't visit half the web until I figure this out.
I am running a Netgear wireless router with the above 3 machines connected, 2 are wireless.
Andrew
So any idea as to my problem. Its obivous many users have some issue with google analytics and some type of malware. As I posted above it affects all 3 computers on my network with 3 different OS's and different browsers. I have scanned my PC's with no less than 3 virus and malware softwares, nothing to be found.
Is there a way that a router can be infected? I didnt think routers had any memory and certainly no hard drive. If so, he can they be cleansed.
