Added phrase in the Internet Explorer

[Roy]

Hello guys,
I am new to this group...I had a question to ask if its normal for
an additional word or phrase to just come out of nowhere and attached
to name of the URL...for example this one
is originally called
microsoft .public .windows, inexplorer,ie6browser/googlegrups
Now in my PC it becomes....
microsoft .public .windows, inexplorer,ie6browser/googlegrups-TAGA
LIPA ARE!

Its pretty strange how did this phrase ever get attached to the
webpage. That phrase occurs in every webpage that I opened with the
Internet Explorer 6.
This happen at the same time when my C and D drive can't be opened by
doubleclicking the mouse but by right clicking and then click open.
The drop down menu had the default in Autorun but I can't find the
autorun .inf file either when I followed the help portion of the
WinXP.
Can anybody knowledgeable please... point me to the rignt direction to
help sort it out.
TIA
Roy

 

[Jon Kennedy]

This may be caused by spyware/malware that's gotten installed on
your system. Use Ad-Aware, Windows Defender and/or Spybot Search & Destroy
to remove it.

Windows Defender
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx
Ad-Aware: http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
Spybot: http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
Good sites on how to install and use Spybot -
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/tutorial/index.html
http://tomcoyote.com/SPYBOT/index1.php

Also download a winsock repair tool, to have just in case cleaning up
anything found breaks it -

Winsock repair tools:
LSPFix- all versions of Windows http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.zip
Winsock2 Fix- Win98, ME
http://www.bu.edu/pcsc/internetaccess/winsock2fix.html
LavaSoft- all versions of Windows-
http://digital-solutions.co.uk/lavasoft/whndnfix.zip

More information here:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/tshoot.html
http://spywarewarrior.com/sww-help.htm

If no joy, in IE go to Tools...Internet Options...Advanced tab, Browsing
section, uncheck "Enable third-party browser extensions", click Apply, click
Okay, reboot. If that solves your problem, then more troubleshooting is
needed to find out exactly which program, or Browser Helper Object (BHO) is
causing this problem. You don't want to leave it at that, as some BHOs are
useful or necessary - like Adobe Acrobat for reading .pdf files or an
essential component of Norton AV. Get BHODemon -
http://www.definitivesolutions.com/bhodemon.htm - read all about BHOs.
Disable all items, and then gradually replace one or two at a time to narrow
down the culprit.

Or if you have IE 6 SP-2 you can do this within the browser:
How to manage Internet Explorer add-ons in Windows XP Service Pack 2
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;883256

If all the above fails, then the problem could be something new that the
spyware cleaners above don't have in their databases yet. In that case....
HijackThis direct download:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/hijackthis.zip
Tutorial on how to use HijackThis:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/htlogtutorial.html
Then post it's output log to the forum here for analysis and feedback by the
parasite experts:
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/
http://aumha.net/viewforum.php?f=30
Or one of the other HijackThis Logs forums listed here:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/forums.html

Or try this program to get some of the most nasty malware:
CWShredder direct download:
http://aumha.org/downloads/cwshredder.zip

An alternate resource for all of this and more:
http://www.aumha.org/secure.htm

 

[Roy]

This may be caused by spyware/malware that's gotten installed on
your system. Use Ad-Aware, Windows Defender and/or Spybot Search & Destroy
to remove it.

Windows Defenderhttp://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx
Ad-Aware:http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
Spybot: http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
Good sites on how to install and use Spybot -http://www.safer-networking.org/en/tutorial/index.htmlhttp://tomcoyote.com/SPYBOT/index1.php

Also download a winsock repair tool, to have just in case cleaning up
anything found breaks it -

Winsock repair tools:
LSPFix- all versions of Windowshttp://www.cexx.org/lspfix.zip
Winsock2 Fix- Win98, MEhttp://www.bu.edu/pcsc/internetaccess/winsock2fix.html
LavaSoft- all versions of Windows-http://digital-solutions.co.uk/lavasoft/whndnfix.zip

More information here:http://www.spywareinfo.com/http://i...ot.htmlhttp://spywarewarrior.com/sww-help.htm

If no joy, in IE go to Tools...Internet Options...Advanced tab, Browsing
section, uncheck "Enable third-party browser extensions", click Apply, click
Okay, reboot. If that solves your problem, then more troubleshooting is
needed to find out exactly which program, or Browser Helper Object (BHO) is
causing this problem. You don't want to leave it at that, as some BHOs are
useful or necessary - like Adobe Acrobat for reading .pdf files or an
essential component of Norton AV. Get BHODemon -http://www.definitivesolutions.com/bhodemon.htm- read all about BHOs.
Disable all items, and then gradually replace one or two at a time to narrow
down the culprit.

Or if you have IE 6 SP-2 you can do this within the browser:
How to manage Internet Explorer add-ons in Windows XP Service Pack 2http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;883256

If all the above fails, then the problem could be something new that the
spyware cleaners above don't have in their databases yet. In that case....
HijackThis direct download:http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/hijackthis.zip
Tutorial on how to use HijackThis:http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/htlogtutorial.html
Then post it's output log to the forum here for analysis and feedback by the
parasite experts:http://forums.spywareinfo.com/http://aumha.net/viewforum.php?f=30
Or one of the other HijackThis Logs forums listed here:http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/forums.html

Or try this program to get some of the most nasty malware:
CWShredder direct download:http://aumha.org/downloads/cwshredder.zip

An alternate resource for all of this and more:http://www.aumha.org/secure.htm

--

Jon R. Kennedy MS MVP/IE
Charlotte, NC USA
(e-mail address removed)







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Thanks for your reply Jon
I think you are right...this is some kind of a malware
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070210092110AAoGmlf
http://www.pcx.com.ph/forum/display_topic_threads.asp?ForumID=3&TopicID=24948&PagePosition=1
Regards
Roy