MonaRonaDona

[Lou]

Does anyone know what the above Subject phrase is all about?
It appears when I access the Internet at the end of the page name.
For instance: The top line of my home page reads "(My ISP) Start Page -
MonaRonaDona"
It continues to appear on all pages that I access.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Does anyone know what the above Subject phrase is all about?
It appears when I access the Internet at the end of the page name.
For instance: The top line of my home page reads "(My ISP) Start
Page - MonaRonaDona"
It continues to appear on all pages that I access.

Somebody added it to your Titlebar - likely through registry/group policy.

Look in your registry:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
"Window Title"=

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Another user had this problem:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/i...ltrGunEjzKIX;_ylv=3?qid=20080223121446AAc5Gse
Google on the phrase for more hits.

 

[MAP]

Does anyone know what the above Subject phrase is all about?
It appears when I access the Internet at the end of the page name.
For instance: The top line of my home page reads "(My ISP) Start Page
- MonaRonaDona"
It continues to appear on all pages that I access.

If you are using Spywareblaster (and you should be), you can change that to
whatever you want it to be.
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

 

[PD43]

If you are using Spywareblaster (and you should be), you can change that to
whatever you want it to be.

Without Spywareblaster: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/176497

 

[MAP]

Without Spywareblaster: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/176497

Nice but that doesn't stop crap from installing on your system as well.

 

[Bjarke Andersen]

Does anyone know what the above Subject phrase is all about?
It appears when I access the Internet at the end of the page name.
For instance: The top line of my home page reads "(My ISP) Start Page -
MonaRonaDona"
It continues to appear on all pages that I access.

If you had searched the net you would easily find the answers which people
have posted, but also you would find that you possibly have a virus
installed, so maybe it was time you did overhaul on your computer.

 

[PD43]

Nice but that doesn't stop crap from installing on your system as well.

I've been surfing the 'net for 15 years and have yet to get my first
virus/malware infestation.

 

[M.I.5¾]

I've been surfing the 'net for 15 years and have yet to get my first
virus/malware infestation.

I find that seriously hard to believe. Even if you keep your virus checker
as up to date as you can, there is always a short interval between the
release of a new virus and the virus checker gaining the ability to detect
it. As for other malware: have you tried a scan with AdAware and other
similar products? They usually turn up all sorts of surprises (and plenty
of them to boot).

 

[Gordon]

I've been surfing the 'net for 15 years and have yet to get my first
virus/malware infestation.

As far as YOU know. Some viruses/malware don't manifest themselves to the
user of the machine - they just use the machine to propagate themselves to
other unprotected machines and then set up a network of zombie machines to
send spam emails without your knowledge.....

 

[PD43]

I find that seriously hard to believe.

Sorry... it's true. And for probably half of that time I ran without
virus protection.

It's simple: I don't visit strange websites, don't download from
unknown sites, don't do file-sharing and I play safe with email.

Even if you keep your virus checker
as up to date as you can, there is always a short interval between the
release of a new virus and the virus checker gaining the ability to detect
it. As for other malware: have you tried a scan with AdAware and other
similar products? They usually turn up all sorts of surprises (and plenty
of them to boot).

Stopped doing that a couple years ago... all it ever found was
"tracking cookies". I now regularly check my cookie file and delete
those I don't want (CC Cleaner).

 

[Gordon]

It's simple: I don't visit strange websites, don't download from
unknown sites, don't do file-sharing and I play safe with email.

well all I can say is you've been EXTREMELY lucky. Do you get attachments by
email? Many viruses are spread by people opening attachments from PEOPLE
THEY KNOW.....

 

[PD43]

well all I can say is you've been EXTREMELY lucky. Do you get attachments by
email? Many viruses are spread by people opening attachments from PEOPLE
THEY KNOW.....

I'm well aware of that... one can hardly have spent as much time on
the 'net as I have and NOT know that. Why does it seem to bother you
so much that I have never had a virus or malware infestation?

 

[Gordon]

I'm well aware of that... one can hardly have spent as much time on
the 'net as I have and NOT know that. Why does it seem to bother you
so much that I have never had a virus or malware infestation?

It doesn't - I am concerned however that you may not KNOW you've ever had a
virus, and may, unwittingly, have spread it to others. That is why there are
virus checkers for Linux, not, to protect Linux, because it doesn't need
protecting, but to protect WINDOWS machines that might be in contact with
that Linux box.

 

[M.I.5¾]

Sorry... it's true. And for probably half of that time I ran without
virus protection.

It has frequently been demonstrated that if you connect a PC to the internet
without a virus checker then the longest it is likely to last before a virus
invades is around 15 minutes. And that is without even opening Internet
Explorer at all. Many of these viruses and worms simply look for
unprotected ports and install themselves. Many have become infected between
the time they install windows and installing the virus scanner and firewall
(though windows XP SP2 has alleviated the position a little by including a
firewall - of sorts).

It's simple: I don't visit strange websites, don't download from
unknown sites, don't do file-sharing and I play safe with email.

It is not necessary to do any of these things to get infected. For all you
know, your PC could have been silently infected with a bot of some sort and
is even as you read interfering with something somewhere - and you can be
totally unaware of it.

Stopped doing that a couple years ago... all it ever found was
"tracking cookies". I now regularly check my cookie file and delete
those I don't want (CC Cleaner).

I don't do anything you don't do except keep my protection up to date, but
every malware scan still turns up a lot more than just 'tracking cookies'.

 

[PD43]

It has frequently been demonstrated that if you connect a PC to the internet
without a virus checker then the longest it is likely to last before a virus
invades is around 15 minutes.

Whatta bunch of bullshit.

I don't do anything you don't do except keep my protection up to date, but
every malware scan still turns up a lot more than just 'tracking cookies'.

Your problem, not mine. You are obviously more active visiting
strange websites than I am.

 

[M.I.5¾]

Whatta bunch of bullshit.

I can only assume that you believe that the only way malware can get to your
machine is if you visit a web site that carries that malware (that is
certainly the vein of your postings). Believe me, sunshine, that just ain't
the case. Although much malware does work that way, an equal or larger
number of species does not. These things can propagate themselves without
any help or assistance from you or I.

A few years ago we had the dubious privilege of watching a self replicating
worm spreading around our network of PCs without any of them looking at
anything on the internet or intranet. It might have been difficult to keep
up except that it actually slowed down probably due to all the network
traffic each copy was generating looking for new uninfected machines to
transfer itself to. It took a couple of hours to do the whole network of
several thousand machines, but it's probably accurate to say that the
infection also spread to other machines and networks conected to the
planetary network.

 

[Lou]

Somebody added it to your Titlebar - likely through registry/group policy.

Look in your registry:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
"Window Title"=

Many thanks. Title removed.
Was it a virus that placed it on my computer?
Lou

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Does anyone know what the above Subject phrase is all about?
It appears when I access the Internet at the end of the page name.
For instance: The top line of my home page reads "(My ISP) Start
Page - MonaRonaDona"
It continues to appear on all pages that I access.

Somebody added it to your Titlebar - likely through registry/group
policy.
Look in your registry:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
"Window Title"=

Many thanks. Title removed.
Was it a virus that placed it on my computer?

Virus installed applicatioon, malware. I should have stated,
"Somebody/something added it to your Titlebar - likely through
registry/group policy."

Most of the buzz on it points to some software called, "Unigray Antivirus".
Did you install that lately?

Have you rebooted and made sure the title does not get 'put back'?

 

[Ken Blake]

I find that seriously hard to believe.

I'll say the same thing PD43 did. I have twice inserted an infected diskette
into the drive (both times were years ago), but both times my anti-virus
software alerted me and the diskette was taken out before any damage was
done. Other than that, nothing.

Even if you keep your virus checker as up to date as you can, there is
always a short interval between the release of a new virus and the virus
checker gaining the ability to detect it. As for other malware: have you
tried a scan with AdAware and other similar products? They usually turn
up all sorts of surprises (and plenty of them to boot).

I run an anti-virus program and six different anti-spyware programs, in
addition to a firewall. In my case, nothing more than Tracking Cookies has
ever been found.
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