Orbitexplorer

[Alric Knebel]

Recently, an extremely aggressive form of popup -- and hard to spot as
such -- has taken over IE. Whenever a link can not be found, the original
white page describing the failure comes up (you're all familiar with this
page: it has the red underlined hyperlinks about Internet Settings and so
on), but is quickly replaced by something that looks almost identitical to
it, except the URL is something called Orbitexplorer. At the same time this
page appears, an "expanded banner" also appears in a new IE window, with a
URL http://images.trafficmp.com/tmpad/ (with other stuff after the "tmpad,"
depending on the ad); it's minimized but you can open it all the way. I
know that there is something hijacking IE, but I can't locate the file doing
it. I've tried searching for key words, and all I get is some temp files in
the Temp folder.

Orbit Explorer is just a search engine, with a home page. The page that
comes up is a facsimile of the "Page Not Found" page so familiar to us, and
I guess the developers are hoping we're tricked by it. Help me if you can.
E-mail me if you want to.

Alric Knebel

 

[Mike Burgess]

Alric,
Orbitexplorer = Parasite.Xupiter

Dealing with Unwanted Malware, Parasites, Toolbars and Search Engines
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
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Mike Burgess [MVP Windows Shell\User] http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/
Blocking Spyware, Adware, Parasites, Hijackers, Trojans, with a HOSTS file
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm [updated 03-02-04]
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[Alric Knebel]

Alric,
Orbitexplorer = Parasite.Xupiter

Dealing with Unwanted Malware, Parasites, Toolbars and Search Engines
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm

Thank you. I did what you said, and downloaded the two programs. I was
startled at how much stuff it found. Thank you.

Alric

 

[Mike Burgess]

Alric,
You're welcome .... glad to see you have things resolved.
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Mike Burgess [MVP Windows Shell\User] http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/
Blocking Spyware, Adware, Parasites, Hijackers, Trojans, with a HOSTS file
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm [updated 03-02-04]
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