[thelist] browser hijacking

[Rosalie Sennett]

I had a similar dilemma. I now have so much blocker cleaner software
installed I nearly spent an hour debugging a problem that was caused by one
of my plugins not showing up automatically!

One program actually did work.

Believe it or not, it seems to be Microsoft AntiSpyware.
You can download the beta version (which is what they are offering ) from
the Microsoft site as long as you have your windows key (you can get it off
the tag on your PC or off the cd)

It also has a bunch of very interesting tools. One that showed me my hosts
file (which I never thought to look at) which was infested with loopbacks to
every adware site on the planet.

I ran the thing... after having run everything else a million times in safe
mode (this I did not run in safe mode) and I went through all the little
tools resetting and clearing and cleansing IE (which was infested I could
tell  by using google and getting nothing but links to more spyware checker
sites)

Just in case it wasn't this one but something else... here's my list.

Norton Antivirus (which kept catching webdllg32.dll but could not delete it)

Ad-Aware
Spybot S&D
Spyware Doctor
Webroot Spy Sweeper
BHODemon
SpywareBlaster
CWShredder actually came with one of these but I don't remember which.

Microsoft Anti Spyware Beta 1 was the last thing I tried.


I felt violated every time I went to google... creepy.

I'm clean now.

Best of luck.

rose
 
 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org [mailto:thelist-
> bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Mark Joslyn
> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 12:16 PM
> To: Evolt
> Subject: [thelist] browser hijacking
> 
> 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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