Browser hijack or misdirect - Please Help!

Mar 05, 2005 5 Replies
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I got some lame virus that I ALMOST have exorcised from my system. One of the last remnants is this - let's say I want to go to a new site. What I do is hit Ctrl+New and open a new browser window. Then, in the browser's "Address" bar I'll type in [m-w.com] directly (Merriam-Webster's Dictionary site, to look up a word). For some unkonwn reason the browser will open to [adultgambling.org]. I'll type in [m-w.com] again and it will finally go to Merriam-Webster's site, but this happens all the time. Neither Ad-Aware, nor Spybot, nor CWShredder has found anything on my computer.



Any ideas?


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G

What about HijackThis? Have you tried that?

Gerald

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R

what you have described is browser hijack, shut off or block in your privacy settings in IE, see if that helps

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Take a look at this text file:

c:\\Windows\\system32\\drivers\\etc\\hosts

you probably should have only one rule in it

127.0.0.1 localhost

Some hacks will setup name/ip rules in here overiding anything you get from a DNS lookup!

I don't think that is what is going on for you but you should still check this file.

I think you are still hacked and the program is getting every other url you type in possibly?

I would second the recomendataion on getting the latest version of hijack this.

Great world we live in now isn't it?

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