Trout

iTrader: (1)

As a regular user of ebay I opened up my ebay home page and pressed the My Ebay button.

As a Mozilla Firefox user my download manager popped up and asked to confirm I wanted to download myebay.dll

I declined and closed down my browser and started again and pressed the My Ebay button and it took me straight to My Ebay page - no download request involved.

What the hell is that about? Is it ebay randomly emitting spyware/adware or has my browser been scammed in some way (don't know techy terms but I am sure you get my drift).

Any comments welcome apart from the usual helpful abuse

JTaylor

I use Firefox and have had some wierd goings on this evening - normally it's faultless.

Trout

iTrader: (1)

Interestingly shortly afterwards I got a Firefox update and now my browser is fine.

I wonder if it has been tampered with and now fixed?

JTaylor

guess so. Mine closed down and then I had a Service Question screen thingy . Seems fine now though.

CooperS

Mine sometimes decides to download that DLL too, both from my laptop and my desktop, so I assume it's not so rare an occurance!

OllyK

Looks like Firefox is misinterpreting the URL:

http://my.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?MyeBay

And isn't passing the parameter back in.

rik1471

That's what you get for trying to be different. Get IE like everyone else

CooperS

OllyK

I use an IE clone "Maxthon" and I really don't have issues with being hacked, I'm behind a firewall for a start and viruses aren't a problem as I have an upto date antivirus app (it would be foolish not to) and some anti-spyware software to boot.

To those inundated with viruses and spyware - stay away from the **** sites!!

Trout

iTrader: (1)

Interesting comments - my internet experience has been impeccable in terms of virus intrusion, pop-ups, spy ware and ad ware. Which is why this was all the more surprising as it has never happened before.

I have far fewer internet issues with Firefox than with IE - so I remain happy with it

Of course if the Luddites want to stay with the steam powered antique then feel free to do so

OllyK

I have IE and Firefox as well a several others to boot - need to test the websites we produce work in as many browsers as possible. In general for day to day browsing, I use Maxthon, tabbed browser which is generally faster and less resource hungry than Mozilla. Add to that it's got some nice features in it that I really like.

Trout

iTrader: (1)

I will give it a try thanks