Re: !! Internet Explorer !!

[Rachael Treu-Gomes <rara () navigo com>]

Sploit-du-jour, throwback from yesteryear, unpatched hole,
pr0n, javascript, careless install, operator error...you name 
it.  You might as well throw a dart at a page of possibilities
if you're trying to blindly diagnose the infection details.

If the suggested spyware removal agents don't fully do the 
trick and you find all web requests continually redirected 
to an alternate site, don't forget to visit and do some
housekeeping on your hosts file.

I'll happily second those in this thread who prescribe
deployment of FireFox or Netscape or Opera or any other
http MO than IE as a prophyllactic measure.  ;)

ymmv,
--ra

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K. Rachael Treu-Gomes, CISSP       rara () navigo com
..quis costodiet ipsos custodes?..

On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 07:48:22AM -0700, Harlan Carvey said something to the effect of:
> >        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.
>
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