when it hijacks you, where does it take you?
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when it hijacks you, where does it take you?
On obvious thing is that instead of blank 404 page not found errors, you end up at a search engine or domain registration.
If you start ending up at the same place regardless of which bogus address you're typing then it's probably your pc that's redirecting.
there should be a law against this. and what do they gain by doing this?
they bring your traffic to their site...
Thanks, Jor. Is this the "homepage" for it?
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html
Chaser, what i was seeing for a while is if the page was a little slow on loading, it would redirect me to a search engine i'd never seen or used before.
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Drau, that's them [img]smile.gif[/img]
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">No prob, Drau. Since I began using those I get alot less garbage picked up in Adaware.Quote:
Originally posted by Drau:
Thanks, CM. I've got those installed at work and will do at home.
FYI- Make sure AdAware's always set to "deep scan", though I think it's a default setting nowadays when it's installed.
(and the rest of this info is for everyone here in general)
I also recommend HijackThis, though be warned that it picks up even normal programs. But most of them would be familiar to anyone, like a Nvidia file or such. There's a few spyware forums where people post their HijackThis logs for experts to look at and diagnose. Chances are others have had the same problems, so you can just view the archives for info.
I learned a TON more about all of this in late April when I had a sudden Trojan& Spyware attack one day. Even became reallll accustomed to regedit.
Another program called Process Manager gives a you a more broader layout than Task manager. It even labels many of the program files that are running, so you know if they're legit or not.
Really if there's anything questionable running I'd just do a yahoo search on the exact filename, there's many pages out there that list & describe the processes.
Of course, with AdAware, Spybot, SpywareBLaster, Spyware guard, etc always make sure to check for updates! Some of those programs usually have routine updates abounding regularly, along with an easy button or toolbar to instantly start checking for any new reference files.
Edit: Links for SpywareBlaster and SpywareGuard-
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/sbdownload.html
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/sgdownload.html
These also alert you if your browser is trying to be hijacked as well. At least I tried this on a friend's machine, and a popup warned that the homepage was attempting to be changed, and you can stop it right there.
<font color="#cd6600" size="1">[ May 26, 2004 03:16 PM: Message edited by: Cemetery Man ]</font>
Download Hijack this, it's the best.
heh..I hate adware. Twice now I've had test stations at work infected by it because dumbass students install shit on the computers. I only have so many PCs set up as test stations, so if I get a larger than usual number of people coming to test, I need every single one that I have. The computers obviously can't be used for testing while 20 popups are appearing every minute, but they can't stop students from downloading crap that installs it on there.
I wish the computers that the test delivery software is on could be off limits to everyone but staff, but unfortunately that's not possible.