Re: [tlug] Ubuntu Facebook popups

[Kevin Sullivan <kts@example.com>]

Inside Security mailing list mentioned this as a recent phishing exploit. Website may be compromised. 

Don’t have the link. 

Regards,

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> On Feb 11, 2019, at 16:42, Jim Breen <jimbreen@example.com> wrote:
> 
> A couple of days ago I started getting popup Facebook notifications
> on my Ubuntu 16.04 system. They appear briefly in the corner of
> the screen, and have a similar appearance to the occasional system
> popups about lost Internet connection, etc. The content is the same
> as the ones I get on my Android phone.
> 
> Does anyone know what is generating them? There's no FB app running
> (AFAIK there isn't one), and I don't have FB running in a tab in Firefox.
> Could it be that FB has planted something in Firefox?
> 
> Very curious.
> 
> Jim
> 
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> Jim Breen
> Adjunct Snr Research Fellow, Japanese Studies Centre, Monash University
> http://www.jimbreen.org/
> http://nihongo.monash.edu/
> 
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