Re: Website URL Hacked - Stays Forever

From: Kevin (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 08/11/04 

Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 11:26:10 -0700

Nah... It is bizzare because I tried everything. I used
the Bazooka Spyware Scanner, Ad-Aware 6.0, and McAfee
Virus Scanner. And yes, they all are updated to the
newest definitions. None of those scanners picked this
thing up. Is there anything I can do?

>-----Original Message-----
>On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 02:45:22 -0700, "Kevin"
><anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>>Basically, it is bizzare. Whenever I open my IE or
click
>>on a link, IE will try to goto www.ads234.com . It is
>>not set as my homepage, but it just seems to want to go
>>there by itself. How can I fix this?
>>
>>Here is an example... I took a screenshot and I was at
>>this webpage and I wanted to go to paypal.com, and you
>>can see it wants to go to ads234.com on it's own.
>>
>>http://photos.e46fanatics.com/data/3350/22348ads234.jpg
>>
>>Notice the URL on the bottom of this picture.
>
>It isn't bizarre at all and its nothig whatsoever to do
with
>Microsoft's IIS web server software. You've just got
some spyware crap
>installed on your system. Remove it with any of the free
spyware
>removal tools out there.
>
>
>Regards,
>
>Paul Lynch
>MCSE
>.
>

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