[thelist] browser hijacking

[Dan McCullough]

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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