Virus Problems

magicman555 · Jul 30, 2007

hi guys

whenever i open a webpage, the page does not open and some other website gets opened, mostly some ridiculous search engines, what is the problem and how do i solve it guys, please help, i use internet explorer

please help guys

mindido · Jul 30, 2007

magicman555 said:
hi guys

whenever i open a webpage, the page does not open and some other website gets opened, mostly some ridiculous search engines, what is the problem and how do i solve it guys, please help, i use internet explorer

please help guys

magicman,

First off, read this:

http://www.nudecelebforum.com/t10138-useful-links-computer-security-spyware-spam-etc.html

Now, your browser has been, what we call, hijacked. That means that a specific file on your computer has been modified so that you now have little control over what you do. You will need to (at minimum) download Hijack This and then send it in to some people that know what they're looking for. I believe they're listed in the article I wrote above.

Depending on how badly your machine has been infected, you may need to prepare for a repartition and reinstall as some of these infectious agents are extremely nasty and can only be gotten rid of through that method.

Lastly, quit using IE! Install Firefox and the security extensions. Your chances of picking up one of these nasties will be dramatically reduced.

magicman555 · Aug 1, 2007

mindido said:
magicman,

First off, read this:

http://www.nudecelebforum.com/t10138-useful-links-computer-security-spyware-spam-etc.html

Now, your browser has been, what we call, hijacked. That means that a specific file on your computer has been modified so that you now have little control over what you do. You will need to (at minimum) download Hijack This and then send it in to some people that know what they're looking for. I believe they're listed in the article I wrote above.

Depending on how badly your machine has been infected, you may need to prepare for a repartition and reinstall as some of these infectious agents are extremely nasty and can only be gotten rid of through that method.

Lastly, quit using IE! Install Firefox and the security extensions. Your chances of picking up one of these nasties will be dramatically reduced.

thanks dude, i will go through that thread and see what can be done. thanks for the reply and i will surely install firefox:headbang:

magicman555 · Aug 1, 2007

actually i did install Spybot Search & Destroy and do the scan and fix the problem but the problems still exist

Texan · Aug 1, 2007

try hitmanpro bro

http://www.hitmanpro.nl/

OFFicerJACK · Aug 1, 2007

magicman555 said:
hi guys

whenever i open a webpage, the page does not open and some other website gets opened, mostly some ridiculous search engines, what is the problem and how do i solve it guys, please help, i use internet explorer

please help guys

Sometimes when a website goes down the link will take you to a search engine. Does this happen with all pages or just a few?

magicman555 · Aug 2, 2007

OFFicerJACK said:
Sometimes when a website goes down the link will take you to a search engine. Does this happen with all pages or just a few?

nowdays it happens with all the pages, but now that i installed firefox it stopped.

mindido · Aug 3, 2007

magicman555 said:
actually i did install Spybot Search & Destroy and do the scan and fix the problem but the problems still exist

Magicman,

Make sure you turn on Teatimer in Spybot. It will help protect the file I mentioned earlier. It won't do any good for IE but should be OK for Firefox.

Also, make sure you install the NoScript extension for Firefox. I wouldn't be without it.

Good luck.

I wrote that article a while ago but I think its still good. Probably needs some updating though. Anyway, make sure you check these two sites out as they used to be (and probably still are) the best resources that I know of.

http://castlecops.com/
http://www.spywarewarrior.com/

magicman555 · Aug 5, 2007

mindido said:
Magicman,

Make sure you turn on Teatimer in Spybot. It will help protect the file I mentioned earlier. It won't do any good for IE but should be OK for Firefox.

Also, make sure you install the NoScript extension for Firefox. I wouldn't be without it.

Good luck.

I wrote that article a while ago but I think its still good. Probably needs some updating though. Anyway, make sure you check these two sites out as they used to be (and probably still are) the best resources that I know of.

http://castlecops.com/
http://www.spywarewarrior.com/

thanks for your tips, thanks

uranxs · Aug 6, 2007

avg free and ms defender do the trick

darklordzoidberg · Jun 22, 2008

For help with maleware this seems to be the best place:-

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/

It has many more helpers than SpywareWarrior.

Castlecops is ok, but if you are foolish enough to use warez(which, besides from the stealing side of it, most of the stuffs infected) and they find it in your logs, they will not help you further.

bronco · Jun 22, 2008

Is it about:blank?

darklordzoidberg · Jun 22, 2008

onerythym said:
HEY year old discussion. Im sure dude has allready fixed his problem.

check the dates an shaddap!

I know it's old, and was posting so that anyone who uses site search with the words trojan or virus may come upon the link I posted.

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