Highjacking?

There was a problem with supposed highjacking.

James Pressler

I just checked .. it was working fine.

Almost certainly you have a virus. I have seen this kind of virus appear at the same time as a keylogger, so don't try any on-line banking until it's sorted.

Paul

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Cookies are neither here nor there. Last time I saw a virus with symptoms which could be similar to yours (redirecting some web accesses), it was not detected by the AV program that the machine had installed (which is why it got in); I installed a different AV which did detect it, but failed to remove it - so I had to format and rebuild (which is part of my job).

I would suggest getting a suitable geek (family, neighbourhood helper, commercial, as appropriate) to look at the machine and confirm (or not!) this diagnosis.

I'm taking this seriously because of what I saw the first time I went to that bogus address (it changed the second time, to obscure what's going on, I think). The first time it flashed up a bogus anti-virus message, but subsequent visits are looking like Google. I have definitely seen such behaviour on an infected machine in the past.

Paul

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James

If you are running Internet Explorer then you can try this:

1. Open TOOLS (little gear lookiing thing in the upper corner of the browser).
2. Select INTERNET OPTIONS
3. Select the GENERAL TAB
4. Select BROWSING HISTORY | DELETE
5. Select (TICK) all options except passwords
6. Hit DELETE



If that doesn't do the trick the next step is to use the FREE rootkit killer (TDSSKiller)

1. Go here: http://support.kaspersky.com/faq/?qid=208283363
2. Down load the TDSSKiller ap and run it.
3. The process will take less than a minute and will report it finds the cause of the virus.

After this is done retry the link to see if the issue has been repaired.

Bill

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It might, conceivably; but there are far worse things out there that cannot be so simply removed - as I said, last time I had to reformat the disk. Removing the redirector was easy, but removing the root kit that installed it was not!

Internet help is not enough to deal with something like this with confidence.

Paul

Unfortunately I run FoxPro and have tried their similar fixes. but thanks.

James Pressler

James

Sorry about that, I was having the exact symptons as you and it was the Browser cache(s) where the redirector was hiding.

Bill

Bottom line with al but the most innocuous of viruses (virii?) - you'll never know if your system is in a reliable state until you do reformat and reinstall. It certainly sounds and looks like a virus. I'd at least be tempted to get yourself a copy of something like the Kaspersky rescue CD and boot off that, see what it turns up.

Hello,

I suggest, as already mentioned, you get at least one of these (better both):

http://support.kaspersky.com/en/viruses/rescuedisk
http://www.avira.com/en/download-start/product/avira-antivir-rescue-system

They will tell you what has infected your PC and will give you the ability, to remove the virus if possible. You however, have to decide wether you want to keep your system, or reinstall it. This depends on the kind of virus you got, so if there are only some suspicious cookies, it is usually not a problem. RootKits are much more dangerous - then you should get one of your geeks^^

And what is "FoxPro"? I know that as a database program, but as a Browser? If possible, try Firefox, Chrome or Opera.

Greetings
Purator

Firefox. Problem solved.

James Pressler

Safari told me:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_OBJECT_OPERATOR in /homepages/24/d228559144/htdocs/concerthall/system/application/controllers/home.php on line 59

Website offline?

Google seems to think there's a problem this morning.

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