Avast doesn't find everything so I suggest you run this from time-to-time:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/security/pc-security/malware-removal.aspx
(BTW, it's probably Avast doing all that disk activity.)
Jez
On 14 June 2013 12:25, Brian Swale <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Chuck wrote
> > Where are you downloading from? Make sure it's coming from one of the
> > language links on this page <http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/>
> > But I'd first start with a thorough virus check. Something's not right.
>
> I don't remember where I downloaded from.
>
> And in any case Firefox dose its own ( annoying) updates quite often as far
> as I can tell.
>
> My anti-virus is Avast free, updated twice daily.
> I last did a virus check one day ago and before that 4 - 6 weeks. Nothing
> was found except a couple of iframe trojans that I have kept as a real
> example of what some nasty little turd put on a couple of my photo web
> pages hosted in Singapore ( cyberultra network)
> I know exactly where the two examples are and they cannot do anything
> where they are. They work only if embedded in a page which gets used..
>
> Thanks for asking.
>
> Brian Swale
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