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Posted by =?Utf-8?B?bG92ZWZvcmxpZmU=?= on December 8, 2006, 11:24 am
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Thanks Newell, that worked perfectly.
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loveforlife
"Newell White" wrote:
> To avoid re-direction of www.escrow.com (which name has been associated with
> a wrong IP address):
>
> 1) Remove it from your Web browser favourites.
> 2) Open C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts in Notepad, search for any
> line containing www.escrow.com and delete the entire line.
>
> To avoid this problem in future, don't double click a link in an e-mail.
> Instead, just select (highlight) the link, Copy, then Paste in your browser's
> address bar. This ensures that you use the web's DNS server to get the right
> IP address for that name rather than trusting the e-mail to play straight
> with you.
> Or you could set your e-mail program to show all messages as plain text -
> then you have to use Copy and Paste, just like living in 1994 again.
> --
> Newell White
>
>
> "loveforlife" wrote:
>
> > I believe the original email has been deleted so it's hard to find the
> > source. Any ideas how?This redirect happens every time I enter
www.escrow.com
> > on this computer. Only vital info I gave on the site was my address and
phone
> > #. I have run updated Norton antivirus and spybot and the microsoft onine
> > scan.
> > --
> > loveforlife
> >
> >
> > "Panda_man" wrote:
> >
> > > "loveforlife" wrote:
> > >
> > > > Sorry , no attachments it just left something that sent me to a phony
> > > > duplicate site. www.escrow.com. So when I go to that site it says the
domain
> > > > is suspended but when i go to that site from my laptop it goes to the
> > > > legitimate site. The folks at the legitimate site said I was given a
virus to
> > > > send me to a fake site. I can't find the virus and want to ensure it
didn't
> > > > cause any other problems
> > > >
> > >
> > > If there was no attachment and you didn't open anything then there is no
> > > problem . Other option is if there was a link you clicked and this link
sent
> > > you to a fake site . If you didn't provide any personal info on that site
,
> > > again don't worry . I may haven't understood you correctly but there is no
> > > way if you just received an email and then just started to be redircted to
a
> > > fake site ... One more question , are you automatically redirected to that
> > > site again or it happened once ?
> > >
> > > Check your computer for any kind of malicious software to remove possible
> > > infections , infections you suspect . Perform the Malware Removal
> > > Instructions in my site here http://pandaman.my.contact.bg
> > >
> > > Regards!
> > > --
> > > Panda_man
> > > Silver level Contributor
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