[thelist] browser hijacking

[Justin King]

The only advice I can give you is to clean your cache, and if you are using
IE, set it to make sure that it reloads the page every time.

What may be happening, is that some spywear is corrupting the google.com
cached page, and this in turn is then displayed when you browse your home
(google.com) page.

All the spywear software in the world will probably not get this ever.

I could of course be wrong, but it's my stab at it.

Good luck.

Justin

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Joslyn" <Mark.Joslyn at SolimarSystems.com>
To: "Evolt" <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 5:15 PM
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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