Has anyone heard of a virus like this???

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October 19th, 2004, 10:14 PM
glamfly

On the computer across the street at my business, we've recently installed DSL. There have been a few problems with that, but I think it's all worked out. The problem I'm having though, is some site called www.incredifind.com (DON'T CLICK ON THE LINK!) seems to have taken over my computer. I don't know how but when I hit Internet Explorer, my homepage used to be Yahoo. I have Google on the desktop, and a few other Tire Websites on the desktop, but whenever I hit any of them it swithces to www. incredifind.com, and says this page cannot be displayed. I've tried to delete all cookies and all temp files. I've gotten a cd from my ISP that had CWShredder, and Ad-Aware programs on it, and it's still there. I can try to type anything in the toolbar, and it goes right back to that incredifind thing. Anyone know what to try next???
October 19th, 2004, 10:31 PM
Stacey0471

Sounds like your browser has just been hijacked. It's probably spyware, and not necessarily a virus.

Install Spybot Search & Destroy, you can get it at the link below. If Ad-Aware didn't pick it up, maybe Spybot will.

http://www.download.com/Spybot-Searc....html?tag=prod
October 19th, 2004, 10:35 PM
Stacey0471

I typed Incredifind into my search engine, and it appears to be a known spyware program. Sounds quite common.
October 19th, 2004, 10:43 PM
Stacey0471

Apparently Spybot DOES remove Incredifind. Make sure you 'update' Spybot to the latest definitions before you search for the spyware though, just to make sure its as current as possible.

Let us know how you get on.

[ October 19, 2004 07:45 PM: Message edited by: Stacey. ]
October 20th, 2004, 04:24 PM
A Katt Named Raggz

Hey Dan...Stacey is right. It's friggin spyware.
I'll email you the installment for Spybot...see if ya can get it somehow.

[ October 20, 2004 01:26 PM: Message edited by: A Katt Named Raggz ]
October 20th, 2004, 04:52 PM
glamfly

Actually, I just got rid of it. Thanks to Stacey, I hadn't thought of it, but I typed in Incredifind on yahoo, and read through a few things, and found a site on how to get rid of it.
The site said that you can get it from downloading screensavers, and other things.
What happened was, I downloaded a screensaver for that computer, and this incredifind thing attached itself. I uninstalled that, and now it works just fine. Thanks guys.
October 20th, 2004, 05:10 PM
Carl I.

Quote:

Originally posted by glamfly:
The site said that you can get it from downloading screensavers, and other things.

Porn.
October 20th, 2004, 06:12 PM
creeper2

Quote:

Originally posted by The Corpse Of Carl:
Porn.

YES! now we are talkin'!

i love all the virus questions like "i was at my local church's website to see what the mass schedule was for saturday and now i have a virus. can you help?"

why don't people just come out and speak the truth. "i was at 18yearoldswithbigboobs.com and now my computer is all screwed up. i think i got a virus from downloading the free porn from there. i need to get it off my computer."

ONLY JOKING with ya' Dan. glad to here you got it taken care off.
October 20th, 2004, 06:29 PM
glamfly

If it was my home computer, that might be true, because nobody likes big boobs more than this guy, but this was our work computer across the street. I don't even use that computer. I was over there, and my dad asked me if I could get rid of the stupid screensaver that our other location had put on the computer, before we closed it. So, since all of us are big fans of the UW Huskies, I downloaded a screensaver of the 2001 Rose Bowl team, and it was in with that evidently. Because after reading about it on a website, I went in and uninstalled that screensaver, and everything immediately went back to normal.
October 20th, 2004, 06:32 PM
glamfly

LOL @ Carl though!
Always has porn on his mind. [img]tongue.gif[/img]
October 20th, 2004, 07:25 PM
Carl I.

Quote:

Originally posted by glamfly:
LOL @ Carl though!
Always has porn on his mind. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Nah, it's just one of those things I find funny. You actually will find no porn in my house. Not saying I have never downloaded any, or hit any sites, but with kids around, I don't keep it around.

I stand by it though, the first thing typed into 95% of home computers, once a person gets hooked up for the first time to the 'net is "free porn".
October 21st, 2004, 03:25 AM
glamfly

Stacey, that sounds good, but the problem is I can't actually get anywhere to download it. If I typed that in the address bar, it would just switch right back to incredifind again.