OT: about:blank homepage hijacker..

[Phule]

www.mozilla.org

[Thermodyne]

Link to kill it:
http://www.securiteam.com/securityre...RP0L0UD5U.html

And as the others have said Mozilla or Firefox to prevent it. If you have to keep IE6, then Firefox is a little more IE friendly. If you work with SQL web apps or Frontpage, then you will want to keep IE around.

[David E. Gervais]

Originally posted by Thermodyne:
Link to kill it:
http://www.securiteam.com/securityre...RP0L0UD5U.html

And as the others have said Mozilla or Firefox to prevent it. If you have to keep IE6, then Firefox is a little more IE friendly. If you work with SQL web apps or Frontpage, then you will want to keep IE around.

Interesting link Thermodyne. Especially the note at the bottom of tyhe page, Aparently my suspicions were right, it is indeed an spyware/hijacker removal service that has been spreading this piece of malware. They should be sued into bankrupsy and given life prison terms fo their maliscious act.

btw: following this kind of procedure does not always work, and it did not work for me. I still had the problem after running through the procedure. But I found a workaround.. I viewed all the files in my ..\windows, \system and \system32 folders and sorted by date. I then deleted all suspicious files and made special notes of the ones that said 'unable to delete' and removed them in dos. When I rebooted the system complained but was nice enough to let me know what it was looking for. I searched the registry and removed any references to these files. it seems fine now.

BTW I wouldn't reccomend this type of drastic procedure unless you have a good knowledge of what is what in the windows folder. It would be easy to delete a 'needed' file and cause windows to die.

One good indication that it's a bad file is when it has a very obscure name, like snxyfc.dll or mxtargoo.dll etc.

Anyway, the problem seems to be solved, and now that my primary browser is Mozilla I should be safer.

Cheers!

P.S. Thermo, I'm approaching 100 folds for the sharky team. Man I hat getting these ***/400 folds, they take several days to complete.

[ July 07, 2004, 11:57: Message edited by: David E. Gervais ]

[Thilock_Dominus]

Try Spy Sweeper from webroot: http://www.webroot.com/wb/products/spysweeper/index.php

I'd never had problem witrh spyware, hijacks after I got spy sweeper.

[rdouglass]

Here's another little free program to throw in the mix. I use IE (due to IntraNet applications) and this little app has been quite helpful and definitely has a place in my toolbag. Anyone using IE should check this out.

http://www.definitivesolutions.com/bhodemon.htm

PS. David, I think Thermo has given up on the Folding project for now - haven't seen him post any new WU's for a while now so I was finally able to pass him. (That's the only way I passed him in SETI@home as well. )

[Thermodyne]

Originally posted by rdouglass:
Here's another little free program to throw in the mix. I use IE (due to IntraNet applications) and this little app has been quite helpful and definitely has a place in my toolbag. Anyone using IE should check this out.

http://www.definitivesolutions.com/bhodemon.htm

PS. David, I think Thermo has given up on the Folding project for now - haven't seen him post any new WU's for a while now so I was finally able to pass him. (That's the only way I passed him in SETI@home as well. )

Yep, the only folding I do now is if I boot up the print server. It does nothing most of the time, so it might as well fold if it's on. It's just too costly to keep the house cool if all of the servers are at 100% load. As for confused, can't help you there. I will say that I usually set a goal that I think I can reach during the cool months and then go for it with everything I can crank up. Once I reach it and the weather warms, I usually tired of it anyways. I will say that folding is more work than seti. With seti I had it running on everything, even my router. And except for problems with their servers, never touched it. With Folding I had to keep poking and proding to keep the systems going on auto pilot.