What is vitruvian.biz?

[ECPerkins]

There is a script that wants to run on every page I visit, named vitruvian.biz. I marked it as Untrusted in NoScript. Full scans from Malwarebytes and Microsoft Security Essentials have not pegged anything, and I've gone through every program in the Uninstall list in CCleaner. I have not found any usable results with a Google search. Has anyone heard of this?

Windows 7, Firefox 16.0.2, NoScript 2.6.1.

[Thrawn]

I haven't heard of it before, but what addons are you running? Some of them insert scripts into the pages you visit.

Otherwise it might be malware. You could try some other free antivirus (AVG, Avira, BitDefender Quickscan, etc).

[Wrackwurt]

EC, I also encountered this issue and also marked it untrusted for NoScript. I found Vitruvian.biz, widgets.vitruvian.biz, (both websites have no content without enabling scripts, and I don't want to enable scripts) a record of some JPG (marked as erotica) posted to some usenet by a "manical@vitruvian.biz", and a couple of possible identities that might link them all together, but I don't want to jump to conclusions. AVG caught nothing, so I searched my computer for "vitruvian" and found in my Firefox extensions folder two scripts, "vitruvian-bootstrap" and "vitruvian". The bootstrap injects the vitruvian script, which attempts to run in Firefox and launch a pop-up window, I think. I got rid of it by deleting both scripts and restarting Firefox. See if that works for you.

It was weird, I had started to think that vitruvian.biz was some hot new media/advertising firm that was suddenly running its scripts everywhere.

[Thrawn]

Hmm...I've come across malware addons before...bear in mind that they could have done more than just tamper with Firefox. Keep a close eye on the antivirus scans, maybe try some other products, in case you didn't get everything.

[therube]

Looks like it is or was related to something "amazon.com".

[srjacob]

vitruvian.biz seems to be inserted in every webpage from the add-on InfoAtoms. I uninstalled InfoAtoms and the references to vitruvian.biz went away. My guess is that it sent your browsing information to InfoAtoms.

You can uninstall InfoAtoms with the Add/Remove programs or Programs and Features in the control panel.

I have no idea how InfoAtoms got installed in the first place.

Steve