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Auto Redirect? - Occhidiangela - 05-08-2007
Each time I try to put the URL of the Amazon Basin D2 forums into my address bar, I get an autoredirect to foxmovies.com.
This started when I first clicked a link to Baron's Bizarre, from a link in Atma's Tavern here.
WTF?
Is this an ISP issue, a virus, or something weird otherwise? I clicked on the link from Google, for The Amazon Basin, and I get.
foxmovies.com
I cleared files and cookies in IE, to no avail.
Rupert Murdoch, you got some 'splainin' to do!
Occhi
Auto Redirect? - Tal - 05-08-2007
Quote:Each time I try to put the URL of the Amazon Basin D2 forums into my address bar, I get an autoredirect to foxmovies.com.
This started when I first clicked a link to Baron's Bizarre, from a link in Atma's Tavern here.
WTF?
Is this an ISP issue, a virus, or something weird otherwise? I clicked on the link from Google, for The Amazon Basin, and I get.
foxmovies.com
I cleared files and cookies in IE, to no avail.
Rupert Murdoch, you got some 'splainin' to do!
Occhi
Run adaware ASAP.
Auto Redirect? - Occhidiangela - 05-08-2007
Quote:Run adaware ASAP.Thanks.
Occhi
Auto Redirect? - vor_lord - 05-08-2007
Quote:I cleared files and cookies in IE, to no avail.
Try clearing out IE altogether :P
Auto Redirect? - Occhidiangela - 05-08-2007
Quote:Try clearing out IE altogether :PNot an option.
Occhi
Auto Redirect? - Delc - 05-08-2007
Check your hosts file.
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
Its just a text file. Check that you don't have a line something like
64.70.103.122 theamazonbasin.com
(or some other ip address other than 208.109.106.110)
Auto Redirect? - Occhidiangela - 05-08-2007
Quote:Check your hosts file.It wasn't there, either by IP address or by name. (Which I guess is good)
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
Its just a text file. Check that you don't have a line something like
64.70.103.122 theamazonbasin.com
(or some other ip address other than 208.109.106.110)
My first run with Adaware came up with some directory warnings, and two cookies. I deleted the cookies.
Same problem.
Running Symantec Client Security, it allegedly seeks out spyware and ad ware.
We shall see.
EDITED: Ha, Symantec didn't find anything "wrong." Gee, what a surprise. :P
Back to Adaware again . . .
Occhi
Auto Redirect? - Quark - 05-08-2007
Skip the trash, go straight to the source;)
Mind running HijackThis! and posting a log? http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/programs.php
A posted log or some google searches can pretty much determine what doesn't belong with HijackThis.
Auto Redirect? - Occhidiangela - 05-08-2007
Quote:Skip the trash, go straight to the source;)I'll post a log. I don't like to kill anything in the registry if I don't have to. I have regiphobia. :shuriken:
Mind running HijackThis! and posting a log? http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/programs.php
A posted log or some google searches can pretty much determine what doesn't belong with HijackThis.
Occhi
Auto Redirect? - Occhidiangela - 05-08-2007
Quote:I'll post a log. I don't like to kill anything in the registry if I don't have to. I have regiphobia. :shuriken:Alexa got me.:(
Occhi
I got rid of her residue.
Thanks for the help.
Occhi
Auto Redirect? - DeeBye - 05-08-2007
AdAware is good, but I find that a combination of AdAware and Spybot kills 99.9% of any level of infestation.
Auto Redirect? - Occhidiangela - 05-09-2007
Quote:AdAware is good, but I find that a combination of AdAware and Spybot kills 99.9% of any level of infestation.Yep. It was nice for Quark to share yet another resource, since one can never have too much of a good thing.
Occhi
Auto Redirect? - Taem - 05-09-2007
Quote:Not an option.
Occhi
That's too bad. Firefox is vastly superior, and much more secure so long as you don't download a bazillion modifiers for it.
Auto Redirect? - Quark - 05-09-2007
Quote:Yep. It was nice for Quark to share yet another resource, since one can never have too much of a good thing.
Occhi
When I was working at the school Help Desk, let's just say spyware was a common issue ...
I saw all kinds of things that never should be on computers. In the end, I came down with a system of using HijackThis!, cleaning up all the entries, then using AdAware and Spybot to delete useless trailing files (while HijackThis! will remove the executable code, it won't snag associated files).
Spyware that did Winsocks hijacking ended up getting a WinsockFix run, while one particularly horrible piece of spyware (forget which) needed a HijackThis run under a BartPE boot with manual file deletions to successfully clean.
Auto Redirect? - Occhidiangela - 05-09-2007
Quote:That's too bad. Firefox is vastly superior, and much more secure so long as you don't download a bazillion modifiers for it.Tell that to the sysadmins at work. They don't take kindly to that sort of suggestion.
Occhi
Auto Redirect? - Zippyy - 05-09-2007
Quote:Tell that to the sysadmins at work. They don't take kindly to that sort of suggestion.Do you work at Microsoft?
Occhi
Auto Redirect? - Tal - 05-09-2007
Quote:Do you work at Microsoft?
IIRC Occhi is a contractor with the Navy and many of the apps and such developed for navy computers only work in conjunction with IE.
Auto Redirect? - Archon_Wing - 05-09-2007
You may as well read this
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?showtopic=60955
Prevention is much better than the cure, since spyware has gotten more sophisticated the years and is a lot harder to remove. After viweing some of the fixes for the newest in crapware, I would almost suggest throwing the computer out the window.;)
Auto Redirect? - Occhidiangela - 05-09-2007
Quote:Do you work at Microsoft?Sirrah, no one talks to me like that.
Pistols, or sabers, at dawn.
Bring your seconds! :P
Occhi
Auto Redirect? - kandrathe - 05-10-2007
Quote:When I was working at the school Help Desk, let's just say spyware was a common issue ...The worst I've seen is when they insert into the networking stack.
I saw all kinds of things that never should be on computers. In the end, I came down with a system of using HijackThis!, cleaning up all the entries, then using AdAware and Spybot to delete useless trailing files (while HijackThis! will remove the executable code, it won't snag associated files).
Spyware that did Winsocks hijacking ended up getting a WinsockFix run, while one particularly horrible piece of spyware (forget which) needed a HijackThis run under a BartPE boot with manual file deletions to successfully clean.