i was using firefox 1.5 to do some pron browsing yesterday when firefox hung on a particular page. then i closed the window, but the firefox process didn't die and i had to kill it with the task manager. after killing it, i noticed a fun "kill and clean"(spyware/trojan that masqurades as anti-spyware) icon on my desktop and a bunch of spammy ie favorites created at 1:19am, the time of the crash. i took care of the spyware and everything, but i'm really surprised that firefox got hijacked like that and i'm trying to figure out how it happened and how to fix it. i think it may have involved my flash plugin because the site that crashed me had what looked like some buggy flash content and i'm currently getting a firefox warnings about my flash plugin performing illegal operations every time i load flash content. it also seemed wierd that a firefox hijack would create ie favorites, almost like its flash hole that happens to work with firefox and the page was really targeting ie users.

if anybody can help me figure out what the hole is and how i can close it, i'd really appreciate it.