Re: Strange Link Placement
From: Mike Burgess (winhelp2002_at_spamthis.com)
Date: 12/11/03
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Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 23:16:22 -0500
Hamid,
runsearch.com = CWS.Mupdate (coolwebsearch trojan)
How to remove Coolwebsearch and affiliates
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm#Coolwebsearch
Note: this type hijack indicates an unpatched machine, that is lacking
in "Defense". Please visit Windows Update to avoid these exploits.
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-- "Hamid" <hsaify@comcast.net> wrote in message news:1136e01c3bf51$59bef990$a601280a@phx.gbl... > Hello all, > > We are in a weird situation and I am wondering if someone > could assist. On our website, at nights, we get taken > over by some strange link guru, program, whatever. What > happens is that certain words all of a sudden becomes > links and shift our visitors to a search page, from > runsearch.com. So a keyword like "employment" is > highlighted quite often on our site, which is bad b/c we > are a career services agency. I noticed last night when > it happened that Kazaa was open, but on occassions before > then, Kazaa was not running. I've seen it on multiple > computers as well. Does anyone know anything about this? > Experienced this? Solved this problem? > > Let me know > Thanks > Hamid > > You can email me if you wish or post here
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