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Subject: My Google has been Hijacked
Posted by: KnicksFan
- [31533713] Tue, Jun 08, 2004, 15:49
Whenever I use google on this computer, the search takes about 15 seconds to show results (instead of being instant) and the first page of "results" is always a list of advertisements for something related to what I searched for. For example, if I search for "basketball", I'll get a page of results of websites where I can buy basketball cards. The second page of search results is always the real first page of results from google. Does anyone know what is infecting me? |
| 1 | KnicksFan
ID: 31533713
Tue, Jun 08, 2004, 15:51
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I just tried to do a search on yahoo and I got the same sort of thing, so whatever trojan is doing this seemingly has taken over any web search I do.
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| 2 | PermDude
ID: 2343587
Tue, Jun 08, 2004, 16:05
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Have you run the spyware seekers?
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| 3 | KnicksFan
ID: 31533713
Tue, Jun 08, 2004, 16:13
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All Spybot S&D found was a few tracking cookies.
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| 4 | PermDude
ID: 2343587
Tue, Jun 08, 2004, 16:19
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Run Adaware as well--sometimes the two find stuff the other doesn't.
As a preventative, I also run Spyware Blaster. Like an anti-virus program which runs in the background.
pd
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| 5 | KnicksFan
ID: 31533713
Tue, Jun 08, 2004, 16:33
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Ad Aware didn't remove it, so I'll try spyware blaster.
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| 6 | PuNk42AE
Donor
ID: 36635522
Tue, Jun 08, 2004, 18:15
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I've had the exact same thing and nothing has been found the last 2 weeks.
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| 7 | KrazyKoalaBears
Leader
ID: 517553018
Tue, Jun 08, 2004, 18:50
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Try this page and see if it helps any. Also, there seems to be something that worked in this thread towards the bottom. Scroll up from the bottom to the first entry under "Comments" (From: chaoticsilence-ga on 13 May 2004 04:18 PDT). Those instructions seemed to work for that guy.
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| 8 | KnicksFan
ID: 51411222
Wed, Jun 09, 2004, 00:29
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Thanks KKB, I'll give that a shot.
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| 9 | youngroman
ID: 221118186
Wed, Jun 09, 2004, 11:08
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i found this possible solution
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| 10 | KnicksFan
ID: 4547913
Fri, Jun 11, 2004, 14:16
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Thanks youngroman, the CWShredder fixed me right up.
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