Virus????

[Guest]

Sometimes when I am on the internet, I am redirected to "www.ads234.com" It
hangs my system. I am running Windows XP Pro with SP2. I would appreciate
anyones help in clearing up this matter.

Thanks in advance,

Tony

 

[Will Denny]

Hi Tony

Seems as though your browser may have been hijacked.

Please try these programs to check for any spyware that may be on your
system:

Ad-Aware - www.lavasoftusa.com
Spybot - http://www.safer-networking.org/
CWShredder - http://forum.aumha.org/downloads/cwshredder.zip
Spy Sweeper - www.webroot.com

Try SpyWareBlaster to stop intrusions:

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

Also see the following links:

http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/security/articles/spyware.asp

 

[Phil]

You've got spyware, adware, a trojan, a search engine hijacker, or a home
page hijacker.

Run these tools weekly
Spybot -- http://www.safer-networking.org/
Ad-aware -- http://www.lavasoftusa.com/

CWShredder: http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4086.html

 

[Guest]

Sometimes when I am on the internet, I am redirected to "www.ads234.com" It
hangs my system. I am running Windows XP Pro with SP2. I would appreciate
anyones help in clearing up this matter.

Thanks in advance,

Tony

Scan your system for "malware". Start off with Ad-aware AND Spybot
Don't forget the LSP-fix.


YES-You need more than 1 malware program,the one's below are all free
and work well.
LSP-fix- http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm
Spybot S&D - http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
CWS Smart Killer- http://www.safer-networking.org/minifiles.html

About Buster- http://www.spychecker.com/program/aboutbuster.html
Ad-Aware SE - http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
CWShredder - http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4086.html
Hijack this - http://www.majorgeeks.com/download3155.html\
Hijacjthis tutorial -http://forums.maddoktor2.com/index.php?showtopic=165
SpywareBlaster - http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
SpywareGuard - http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareguard.html
WinPatrol - http://winpatrol.com
Win Patrol is NOT a malware program,but it will inform you if anything writes
to your registry or changes your home/search page,a nice little program.
BHODemon - http://pcworld.com/downloads/file_download.asp?fid=23611&fileidx=1
Bazooka -http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/index.html
asquared2 "Trojan Remover" - http://www.emsisoft.com/en/
Socklock- http://nsclean.com/socklock.html
A nice site -
http://groups.msn.com/TeMercInternetSecuritySite/malwarecountermeasures.msnw
NOD32Anti-Virus Free 30 day trial
http://nod32.com/download/trial.htm

A link for free online virus and trojan scanners.
http://virusall.com/downscan.html

 

[Jone Doe]

not a virus per se, but the second cousin to one, the BHO (Browser Helper
Object) that takes over your home page, and your search, and keeps sending
you to the web pages that have paid to annoy you.

SpyBot and AdAware, mentioned in the other posts yo will get, will help to
clean these up

 

[Guest]

As the earlier repliers mentioned you have been hijacked, take these steps
to eliminate the problem.

Definately use spybot, and be sure to update the program before running.
You can find it at downloads.com.

next open internet options in the control panel and delete cookies and
delete files.

The other thing you should do is do a search on your hard drive for and type
od ost or lmhost files

enter *host* in for the search. Use notepad to open files up called host or
lmhost. notice there is no "." extention for these files. Be sure ion those
files that there are no entres like:

169.254.25.155 http:\\www.google.com

if you see any entries in the file that do not have # in front of them,
either delete them or REM them out by placeing a # at the front of the entry.

Hope this helps
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