RESOLVED Strange script tries to run when connection is down

[wazup85]

I thought i might of had a vires .scan only showed that a winsock lsp scaner i download had some in it got rid of them and uninstalled fire fox had to delete my firefox profile too. now its not showing up any more I will keep an eye on my system for any more oddites

[wazup85]

o when I did let it run the frame that noscript let me see would disaper .so you could not tell it was running with out noscrip.i thought it might be some kind of traffic tracker or key logger .sorry i was not able to get it jsview I was not thinking and just wanted it gone

[Superfish]

OP spelling not reliable ("scaner"?)
Lots of jQuery coders use superfish plugin.

But Some Possibly Bad Script?
Suggest this is more a problem for malware support forums, not for Giorgio.

[Superfish]

This site seems to be touting an addon
http://www.superfish.com/
Still not a NS problem, hey.

[Tom T.]

@ Superfish: Good catch. We're very accustomed to users whose native language is not English, but I'd have thought I'd seen the correct spelling the first time that it showed up in NS list. We see what we expect to see....

I did reproduce it at Google, and it is indeed superfish. Thanks.

@ wazup85: It does appear to be merely more fancy junkware rather than malicious. There doesn't seem to be cause for worry, because NoScript is blocking it for you. Keep it that way. Given that the site that user Superfish linked to touts it as "Suckerfish on (steroids)", I don't think I'd run *anything* called "Suckerfish" or its derivatives.

I think we're done here, unless anything else suspicious shows up. Thanks again for your time and knowledge. Superfish.

[therube]

About Superfish

We are technology enthusiasts, mathematicians, and engineers who have been working for several years on visual search technology. Our core technology uses images (as opposed to keywords) as search queries. Our vision is that visual search will one day allow people to use any picture at any time from any place as a search query. We are a venture-backed startup with headquarters in Silicon Valley and engineering and R&D in Israel.

http://www.superfish.com/about.jsp

(When "supper" turned up no results, my immediate thought was to try "super".)

[Tom T.]

We are technology enthusiasts, mathematicians, and engineers who have been working for several years on visual search technology. Our core technology uses images (as opposed to keywords) as search queries. Our vision is that visual search will one day allow people to use any picture at any time from any place as a search query. We are a venture-backed startup with headquarters in Silicon Valley and engineering and R&D in Israel.

Oh, wow, what could possibly go wrong with *that*? (Maybe it'll convince people to quit putting their pics on Facebook or whatever.)

Another company has sold 500 vans with backscatter x-ray machines - like at airports - so LE can cruise up and down the street and see what's inside a car. And presumably, depending on the construction material, a *house*.