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silveradodude Enthusiast

silveradodude

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Help,

my computer has been hijacked by a browser hijacker. Every time I type www.anywebpage.com it redirects me to a search page.

i have norton anti virus ,spyhunter,and stop sign and none of them will detect it.

It has been slowing the computer down and ruining the internet for me.

The ony way I can get to a web page is using my favorites or eliminating the www. and replacing it with http://.

 

Does this sound familiar to any 1?

 

I know this is not topic related but I really need help and a lot of people look @ this forum.

thanks in advance

steve

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elgineddie

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Hey man,

This happened to my wife's computer too. It seems that some site you visited executed some malicious code that edited your registry (I am assuming you aren't running a Mac). You need to scrub the registry now to remove any instance of that URL. It isn't a virus or spyware so your tools won't see it. What they did was edit the registry entry that calls a new webpage and added their url to the beginning of each and every new web page. Again, not a virus but some really stupid website programmer that should have sugar poured in his gas tank! ;-)

 

I did it once and I forgot the exact removal techniques but it's something like this...

 

BE CAREFUL! I won't be responsible for this trick if you hose your machine.

Click on your Start Menu and go to "Run..." then type REGEDIT

From the Edit pulldown menu, select Find (CTRL F) and enter the search page URL that you keep getting, and hit Enter. If you get any results, you can double-click on the highlighted result and change the URL. You will probably want to just remove their URL and leave the "http://" or whatever was the original... if you remember.

 

That should do it dude! If you aren't comfortable doing these steps, don't do it. Call a friend who is a techno geek and have him/her do it.

 

Later,

Ed

snoman Senior Enthusiast

snoman

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Just down load SpyBot to clean regitry and also use spyblaster to block bad scripts from planting entries to begin with. If you want even more protection, stop use IE and switch over to FireFox by Mozzila as it is very unfreindly to popups and maliciuos scripts. I have never had first popup using it.

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I just had this EXACT same thing happen to me 2 weeks ago. I was running Norton's antivirus/firewall, I had Adaware6.0, Registry Mechanic, Spybot, and tried numerous other programs I got via freeware/shareware from www.majorgeeks.com NOTHING fixed it permanantly. It would only fix it until the next hard-boot of the computer. The webpage that would come up didn't even have a www. It was just "aboutBlank" <----That's all it said in the URL line. I took it to a professional and he said he has seen more of this type of problem in the last 2 months than ever before. (got a second opinion via phone b4 I brought to him and said same thing). Well, to make a long story short, he had to scrub everything and reload windows. Cost me $70.00 and I had to reload everything. Thank god for backups. Be careful with your backups though as they might also be infected depending on when you backed up files. Anyways, good luck and I hope you fix it. There's some bad stuff floating around right now. The guy that fixed my $h!t said he's running windows 95. LOL, there's nobody writing malicious programs for it anymore so it's the safest OS out there. :sigh:

Lance Link Enthusiast

Lance Link

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I had a problem like that and installed Ad Aware software, available free online (do a Google), and it took care of it. I run the program weekly now, plus a Norton scan, and everything's clean.

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Holy $hit,

It worked ,it worked...

I downloaded ad aware and ran the scan and it found it. After two weeks of frustration you chevy guys pulled some 1 out of the mud.

I got to thank you guys for the tip.

I am soooo glad this board exists.

Thanks again and I hope to answer some of your tech problems somewhere down the road...... :sigh:

steve

snoman Senior Enthusiast

snoman

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I work with networks (wired and wireless) and broad band for a living and Adware is not my first choice (I have tried them all) Stop using Internet Explorer too and you will rid yourselves of a lot of proplems as well as it provides a welcome environment for this stuff. Firewall offer no protection against "nasty" scripts that change your registry as they come it on ports normally used for web access and give you a false sense of security with this problem.

snoman Senior Enthusiast

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Snoman, if you say to not use internet explorer, what do you suggest? Netscape?

I use Mozilla (Mozilla.org) You can use their version of Netscape 7.1 (Mozilla 1.7 as they own code used in Netscape browsers) or my favorite Mozilla's FireFox. (it is a ver 0.9.1 and it is a super browser only and way ahead of IE) FireFox even runs well on low resource machines.

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I just had this EXACT same thing happen to me 2 weeks ago. I was running Norton's antivirus/firewall, I had Adaware6.0, Registry Mechanic, Spybot, and tried numerous other programs I got via freeware/shareware from www.majorgeeks.com NOTHING fixed it permanantly. It would only fix it until the next hard-boot of the computer. The webpage that would come up didn't even have a www. It was just "aboutBlank" <----That's all it said in the URL line. I took it to a professional and he said he has seen more of this type of problem in the last 2 months than ever before. (got a second opinion via phone b4 I brought to him and said same thing). Well, to make a long story short, he had to scrub everything and reload windows. Cost me $70.00 and I had to reload everything. Thank god for backups. Be careful with your backups though as they might also be infected depending on when you backed up files. Anyways, good luck and I hope you fix it. There's some bad stuff floating around right now. The guy that fixed my $h!t said he's running windows 95. LOL, there's nobody writing malicious programs for it anymore so it's the safest OS out there. :sigh:

This is really weird, last week, I just had a very similar problem...

 

I run the full Norton suite, AdAware, Spybot and Avast!... At first the computer had the symptoms like the guy described above, webpages would just freeze, it wouldn't figure out the DNS stuff, and the computer finally just locked up. After a few reboots and booting from a rescue disk, I ran Avast! through the boot record and found Bobax (a worm) and a couple of trojan viruses... They'd infected the boot record, Pagefile.sys, and bunch of .dll's in windows. Screwed that sucker up royally. There were a few registry keys that didn't make much sense, but nothing really bad there...

 

I'm fairly lazy when it comes to messing with computers at home (I'm a programmer at work) so I just formatted the d**n thing. What a pain. I had a few things backed up, but not many... I wonder why so many people have been having trouble lately? d**n computer terrorists!

snoman Senior Enthusiast

snoman

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I just had this EXACT same thing happen to me 2 weeks ago.  I was running Norton's antivirus/firewall, I had Adaware6.0, Registry Mechanic, Spybot, and tried numerous other programs I got via freeware/shareware from www.majorgeeks.com    NOTHING fixed it permanantly.  It would only fix it until the next hard-boot of the computer.  The webpage that would come up didn't even have a www.      It was just  "aboutBlank"  <----That's all it said in the URL line.  I took it to a professional and he said he has seen more of this type of problem in the last 2 months than ever before.  (got a second opinion via phone b4 I brought to him and said same thing).  Well, to make a long story short, he had to scrub everything and reload windows.  Cost me $70.00 and I had to reload everything.  Thank god for backups.  Be careful with your backups though as they might also be infected depending on when you backed up files.  Anyways, good luck and I hope you fix it.  There's some bad stuff floating around right now.  The guy that fixed my $h!t said he's running windows 95. LOL, there's nobody writing malicious programs for it anymore so it's the safest OS out there.  :sigh:

This is really weird, last week, I just had a very similar problem...

 

I run the full Norton suite, AdAware, Spybot and Avast!... At first the computer had the symptoms like the guy described above, webpages would just freeze, it wouldn't figure out the DNS stuff, and the computer finally just locked up. After a few reboots and booting from a rescue disk, I ran Avast! through the boot record and found Bobax (a worm) and a couple of trojan viruses... They'd infected the boot record, Pagefile.sys, and bunch of .dll's in windows. Screwed that sucker up royally. There were a few registry keys that didn't make much sense, but nothing really bad there...

 

I'm fairly lazy when it comes to messing with computers at home (I'm a programmer at work) so I just formatted the d**n thing. What a pain. I had a few things backed up, but not many... I wonder why so many people have been having trouble lately? d**n computer terrorists!

IE is a major focus here because a lot of hackers target this browser because most people use it. FireFox by Mozilla is VERY resistant to these attacks and was designed that way from the start and is a true next generation browser. I have never had to reformat and re-install a infected system and I have seen some nasty ones.

obbop Enthusiast

obbop

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If your home page is hijacked and the "about:blank" site is seen you gotta' get rid of the Trojan causing the problem (after hanging the scum doing this stuff).

 

Sometimes, running CWShredder will work. Do a Web search and you'll find plenty of download sites. Just ensure the site you download from is reputable and always run an anti-virus scan on the downloaded program.

 

The Trojan is constantly manipulated to evade AdAware, SpyBots, Pest Patrol, CWShredder, etc. Thus, you may have to remove it manually. Ugghhh.

 

Here are the results from a Google search:

 

http://www.google.com/search?q=+hijack+&qu...out:blank"

 

Poke around and peek at all the info.

 

I am not posting a single site with instructions on how to manually remove the Trojan since the different versions require different methods. Uggghhhh.

 

If you get the worst one you can not open any Web site other than the ones the Trojan allows. You MAY have to use another uninfected machine to get the info needed to manually kill the Trojan. Just remember the term "about:blank" and plop it into Google to bring up sites with instructions. While grabbing those instructions get some from various sites since what works for one version of that Trojan may not work on another version.

 

The earlier versions of this particular Trojan can be removed with the various softwares. Try them all. Sadly, the newest versions of the Trojan are coded to evade removal by software programs and require manual removal.

 

If you back up your important data and your programs are also stored outside your machine you can do the old uninstall/reinstall routine to remove the Trojan. Used this method myself since my Win98 SE was ready for that step anyway to remove bits and pieces of the many programs I've installed and uninstalled the last couple years. Your electronic brain will run better after a fresh re-installation. Just make sure you wipe the hard drive clean and that the back ups are free of that Trojan.

 

For many people I recommend spending the $50 it costs (in my area) to have your local computer shoppe uninstall, wipe clean, and reinstall your operating system. If you have a mass market machine such as Dell, Compaq, etc. it may be time to toss aside the Windows they installed...... those firms alter the operating system in various ways, usually. Pay for a full-blown original Micro$oft operating system and you'll likely notice how bloated the O/S was that originally came with your machine. And, with the Msoft O/S you'll have the software needed to uninstall/reinstall properly in the future.

 

Tis a complicated issue with MANY variables..... there is NO one-answer-fits-all answer regarding all that was written above.

 

Good Luck!!!!

 

Death to the script kiddies!!!!!

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