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Re: !! Internet Explorer !!
From: Harlan Carvey <keydet89 () yahoo com>
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 07:48:22 -0700 (PDT)
Yesterday i was visitng web sites. so i felt my computer slow. and that time i shutdown my computer and go somewhere. now today i restarted my computer and when i open internet explorer i got Web Page. Which i didn't SET. and now i am not able to write www.anydomain.com . when i type it gave me error. and it is also opening Popup window advertise. and it has 2 files in my windows directory. when i removed them it comes back again. So please tell me, 1) what is it?
Sounds like some sort of spyware/annoy-ware, that hijacks your default web page, feeds pop-ups, etc.
From what little you've said, sounds like a Browswer
Helper Object, perhaps. Some things you might mention are, what's this web page that you see, but didn't set? What's the URL?
2) how i can delete/remove it ?
Spybot Search and Destroy. AdAware. HijackThis. Run them all.
3) how i got this thing ?
From web surfing. It's also likely that you don't
have (up-to-date) antivirus software.
4) how to secure from this thing ?
Stop using IE. Try FireFox or Netscape. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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