Unusual characters in web address

[Tommy]

For the past week, every time I enter a web site address
on the address bar and press Enter, additional characters
are added to the address. The following is an example:

Type In: http://www.att.net

Address Displayed after hitting Enter:

http://ehttp.cc/?www.att.net

The "Page cannot be displayed" message appears when I try
to go to that address. Can you tell me what is causing
this? Thanks for your help.

 

[H Leboeuf]

Got hit by this nasty parasite.

CoolWebSearch - CWS http://www.spywareinfo.com/articles/cws/
More: Complete list by variant with up-to-date information.
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html
More: Removal tool: http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/cwshredder.zip
More: Removal tool:
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/vbs.bootconf.html
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Dealing with Unwanted Spyware, Parasites, Toolbars and Search Engines
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm



Henri Leboeuf
Web page: http://www.generation.net/~hleboeuf/index.htm

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP]

For the past week, every time I enter a web site address
on the address bar and press Enter, additional characters
are added to the address. The following is an example:

Type In: http://www.att.net

Address Displayed after hitting Enter:

http://ehttp.cc/?www.att.net

The "Page cannot be displayed" message appears when I try
to go to that address. Can you tell me what is causing
this? Thanks for your help.

First eliminate any scumware.
See
Dealing with Unwanted Spyware, Parasites, Toolbars and Search Engines
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm

Note that AdAware and SpyBot S & D will each catch some things the other
won't. Also, each needs to be updated with the program's update function
before every use, even when just downloaded. There's also a lot more to do
than just those two programs. CWShredder is also available here:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/cwshredder.zip
**Post your HijackThis log to
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/ or the Spyware forum at
http://forum.aumha.org/ for expert analysis, not here.**
Alternative download pages for Ad-Aware, Spybot, HijackThis and CWShredder
may be found on this page:
http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm.
If trying everything at that site does not fix the problem please post back
in the same thread.

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