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hijacking sysinternals and image.google.com to bestwindowsdownloads, etc mkrosse@gm***.com 01-08-2006
Posted by mkrosse@gm***.com on January 8, 2006, 2:58 am
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somethings hijacking all my browsers (IE & FireFox)

symptoms ..
cant get to google image search - hijacks to bestwindowsdownloads or
winlocate
cant get to . - hijacks to pick-to-click

Ad-Aware, MS AntiSpy, Norton AV all report 'clean'

i suspected somehow a rootkit, which is why i tried to go to
. and realized something clever is hijacking my XP-SP2 system.

please advise any ideas.


Posted by Duane Arnold on January 9, 2006, 3:56 am
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> somethings hijacking all my browsers (IE & FireFox)
>
> symptoms ..
> cant get to google image search - hijacks to bestwindowsdownloads or
> winlocate
> cant get to . - hijacks to pick-to-click
>
> Ad-Aware, MS AntiSpy, Norton AV all report 'clean'
>
> i suspected somehow a rootkit, which is why i tried to go to
> . and realized something clever is hijacking my XP-SP2 system.
>
> please advise any ideas.
>

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/RootkitRevealer.html
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,23780,00.asp

Other tools like PE in the link.

Long
http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Hidden_Backdoors_Trojan_Horses_and_Rootkit_Tools_in_a_Windows_Environment.html

Short
http://tinyurl.com/klw1

Duane :)






Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on January 9, 2006, 8:47 am
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mkrosse@gm***.com wrote:

> somethings hijacking all my browsers (IE & FireFox)

Also check your HOSTS file for a contamination.

--
-bts
-Warning: I brake for lawn deer

Posted by Offbreed on January 9, 2006, 11:50 pm
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Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
> mkrosse@gm***.com wrote:
>
>> somethings hijacking all my browsers (IE & FireFox)
>
> Also check your HOSTS file for a contamination.

LOL, count your host files, as well.

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