[thelist] browser hijacking
Dan McCullough
dan.mccullough at gmail.com
Wed Jan 19 12:02:50 CST 2005
For the site that you cant access at all you can go into IE and under
Tools, Internet Options, Security. Find Restricted Sites and see if
www.power-sonic.com is an entry.
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 09:15:41 -0800, Mark Joslyn
<Mark.Joslyn at solimarsystems.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have a bit of a dilemma. I believe my home computer has been hijacked (to
> some degree).
>
> Here are my symptoms:
>
> I cannot access one particular website via the internet
> (www.power-sonic.com)
> Sometimes Google (my home page) is not Google, but some other
> website - but the address bar say www.google.com/
>
> I have run about 9 different spyware checkers, and anti-hijack programs
> including:
>
> Adaware (says I am clean)
> Spybot Search & Destroy (says I am clean)
> Spy Sweeper (says I am clean)
>
> The other spyware programs are all over the place telling me that I have
> CoolSearchWWW and PeopleonPages, various registry entries, tracking cookies,
> etc.
>
> I have run Hijack This and is looks as though any malicious items have been
> removed and that what is running is legitimate.
>
> My problem is this - I am still having issues accessing the site and with
> Google. It is very frustrating since it is a sporadic occurrence - sometimes
> I do a spyware check and delete a cookie and everything is fine. Then a
> while later I am having problems again - run a spyware check and it find
> nothing.
>
> What do you do when Spybot and HiJack This both tell you that your machine
> is fine, but you are still experiencing problems?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> markJ
>
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