Internet Optimizer?!

[Vincent]

Everytime I go onto a website that doesn't work, I don't get the traditional

"Page not found" screen. I am now sent to some ad/like website with a search
engine and it would say on the top my page was not found.


How can I get rid of this?!

Ad Aware didn't work. Spybot didn't work. AVG Virus scanner didn't work.
Could I try reinstalling internet explorer (is it possible?)



Vincent

 

[jorr]

I had the same problem and I used ad- aware and the problem didn't go away,
what I did was I kept running ad aware (6) times until it found the file
that was "hijacking" and redirecting me. Keep trying Ad Aware, it will find
it eventually.

 

[Willit]

Check the "Hosts" file and see if they are on there.

goto windows > system32 > drivers > etc

some ad/popup blockers use it and some speed up programs
do to. just delete ant entries and re-save the file, it's
opens with Note pad.

 

[GSV Three Minds in a Can]

Everytime I go onto a website that doesn't work, I don't get the traditional

"Page not found" screen. I am now sent to some ad/like website with a search
engine and it would say on the top my page was not found.


How can I get rid of this?!

Ad Aware didn't work. Spybot didn't work. AVG Virus scanner didn't work.
Could I try reinstalling internet explorer (is it possible?)

I think you've fallen foul of the latest NAFF trick by Verisign (iirc?),
who have provided '*.com' type DNS entries to catch all invalid domains.
My ISP has fixed their DNS servers to not fall foul of this -sounds
like your ISP needs to do something similar.

 

[Voice of the Mysterons]

If you think it is SpyWare, have a look at some of the info/advice here:

http://www.spywareinfo.com

There are some other powerful spyware removal tools -- but use with care and
get advice on the forums on the above site first. This is a recent IE
hijacker:

http://www.spywareinfo.com/articles/cws/

 

[Robert Spike]

Everytime I go onto a website that doesn't work, I don't get the traditional

"Page not found" screen. I am now sent to some ad/like website with a search
engine and it would say on the top my page was not found.


How can I get rid of this?!

Ad Aware didn't work. Spybot didn't work. AVG Virus scanner didn't work.
Could I try reinstalling internet explorer (is it possible?)



Vincent

If you visit www.doxdesk.com/parasite it will list the parasites on
your system and tell you how to get rid of them. The whole process
takes a few minutes.

Good luck.