Multiple pages of "The Hun" when IE is started...

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Adde

A user is experiencing problems with a web page that keeps
popping up when Internet Explorer is started! Every time
the user launches the IE 6.0, pages of thehun.net web page
keeps opening up in new browsers until the Internet
Explorer is terminated via the Task Manager!?

We have scanned the computer with anti virus scanners and
Ad and spy-ware scanners but nothing unusual is found!

The only process running in the task manger during this
event is the iexplorer.exe

Any ideas or suggestions? The computer is running Windows
2000, SP4 and IE 6.0 with all the latest security updates.

/A
 
Adde said:
A user is experiencing problems with a web page that keeps
popping up when Internet Explorer is started! Every time
the user launches the IE 6.0, pages of thehun.net web page
keeps opening up in new browsers until the Internet
Explorer is terminated via the Task Manager!?

We have scanned the computer with anti virus scanners and
Ad and spy-ware scanners but nothing unusual is found!

The only process running in the task manger during this
event is the iexplorer.exe

Any ideas or suggestions? The computer is running Windows
2000, SP4 and IE 6.0 with all the latest security updates.

/A

First eliminate any scumware.
See
Dealing with Unwanted Malware, 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 nothing there helps, please post back to this thread.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE
Please respond in Newsgroup. Do not send email
http://www.fjsmjs.com
Protect your PC
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/
 
Whilst The Hun site may not be to your liking there are some tips at the top which refer to this or similar problems
here is what they sa

Getting thehun pop up 30 times
There is a hacker out there that infected a lot of computers with a Trojan Horse virus. This virus enabled the hacker to launch a wide scale attack on serveral sites, including mine. If you have thehun.net pop up on your computer 30 times every time you open a browser window your computer is part of a large DDOS attack on my site...

I was contacted by someone that lived not too far from where I live, we talked and I almost begged him to allow me to come over to check out the problem and find the solution. Sitting at his computer I indeed saw thehun.net pop up on every page we tried to open. Some digging around brought up the solution though! So, thanks to a very good guy from Kampen, here is the solution for this problem:


Click on 'start' and select 'run'. Then type 'regedit' and press Enter.
Press CTRL-F and search for 'thehun.net'. Every key that comes up with this site you can delete (click it once and press the 'del'-button on your keyboard), hit F3 to search for the next occurance untill you're done.
Press CTRL-F again and search for '086AE192-23A6-48D6-96EC-715F53797E85' and again delete all references to it.
Use the Windows Explorer to browser to 'c:/windows/system32/ and delete the file named 'DReplace.dll'. If you can not find the file you can do a search (click 'start' and then 'search')

This should rid you of the problem, but your security is still wide open, the virus got in, the above process removes the virus, but does not solve the security leak on your machine.




----- Frank Saunders, MS-MVP wrote: ----

Adde said:
A user is experiencing problems with a web page that keep
popping up when Internet Explorer is started! Every tim
the user launches the IE 6.0, pages of thehun.net web pag
keeps opening up in new browsers until the Interne
Explorer is terminated via the Task Manager!
Ad and spy-ware scanners but nothing unusual is found
2000, SP4 and IE 6.0 with all the latest security updates

First eliminate any scumware
Se
Dealing with Unwanted Malware, Parasites, Toolbars and Search Engine
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.ht

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.zi
**Post your HijackThis log t
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/ or the Spyware forum a
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 nothing there helps, please post back to this thread

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/O
Please respond in Newsgroup. Do not send emai
http://www.fjsmjs.co
Protect your P
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect
 

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