Browser hijack attempt resulting in lost favorites (= no bookmarks)

Browser hijack attempt resulting in lost favorites (= no bookmarks)

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Browser hijack attempt resulting in lost favorites (= no bookmarks) Shannon Jacobs 10-11-2005
Posted by Shannon Jacobs on October 11, 2005, 8:51 pm
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Possibly an early alert, or possibly rare, but broadcasting this post a bit.
Follow-ups are set to microsoft.public.internetexplorer.security, which
seems to be the best fit to report a browser hijack targeting IE.

The link itself arrived as email related to another system I manage. When I
visited the poisoned (but now happily deceased) Web site, it quickly became
apparent that it was a browser hijack attempt. The attacked machine was
running Windows 2000, which probably helped me is fighting it off--at least
I think so--, but I did apparently lose all of my favorites in the battle.
Has anyone seen this kind of thing before? I couldn't find any directly
related reports in the newsgroups (including Google Groups searches). Sorry,
I don't have more of the specific information at this computer, but I'll be
at that location later today, and can provide more data then.


Posted by =?Utf-8?B?RW5nZWw=?= on October 12, 2005, 12:02 pm
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Hello Shannon;

Try this:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/IEFAQ.htm#favorites

Good luck

Engel

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