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

[Victor Brilon]

On Feb 28, 2006, at 4:23 AM, Leroy Tennison 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.


There's really no need for conspiracy theories on spyware. A simple  
google search for "mozilla talkback" brings up this site:
http://www.mozilla.org/quality/qfa.html

Victor