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

[Leroy Tennison]

Jason Mock wrote:
> 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
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> On 2/28/06, Leroy Tennison <leroy_tennison at prodigy.net> wrote:
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>> 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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Maybe the paranoia at the company where I work is rubbing off too much 
but it seems strange that, after working fine for a couple of weeks, 
this suddenly started happening on both apps yesterday.  Now it's 
happening every time I start Thurderbird.  However, there is no apparent 
problem with either application.  I get the popup (which says nothing 
about a problem) and then the application starts.  The popup says I can 
cancel if I want but the only way to end it is through the Process 
Table.  Is the backtalk application that much more buggy than 
Firefox/Thunderbird?  It's when these kinds of weird things start 
happening that I get nervous.