[NTLUG:Discuss] Netscape Quality Checker or something like that

[Jason Mock]

There is a talkback extension that firefox and thunderbird comes with that
comes up when the apps have a failure in one way or another, in an attempt
to collect information about the problem.  Actually this functionality has
been part of "Mozilla" for quite some time, and isn't spyware.  If you feel
that it is, simply remove that extension...

Jason V. Mock

On 2/28/06, Leroy Tennison <leroy_tennison at prodigy.net> wrote:
>
> I downloaded Firefox and Thunderbird recently and began using them.
> Tonight this Netscape Quality thing popped up for no apparent reason.
> It supposedly offered the opportunity to cancel but not only was that
> conveniently grayed out, I couldn't kill it by clicking the X or
> File->Exit.  Fortunately the KDE ProcessTable application was able to
> kill the 'talkback' process.  I found two 'talkback' executables:
> /opt/firefox/extensions/talkback at mozilla.org/components/talkback and
> /opt/thunderbird/extensions/talkback at mozilla.org/components/talkback (it
> did pop up a second time a very short while after the first instance).
> What I'm wondering now is if I have Spyware installed.  Anybody know
> what this is and whether it's harmful.  If not I'm seriously thinking
> about looking into configuring IPTables to block outbound transmissions
> to Mozilla.org and fullcirclesoftware.com.
>
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