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Posted by Mike Fitzgerald (Member # 1304) on 09-08-2007, 12:36 AM:

Hello from Taiwan. I have been having a issue with my laptop. It started when i was home and could not figure it out. I am hoping someone here can steer me in the right direction. If iam looking at a webpage and it has a link in it to another webpage i click on the link and it takes me to a different webpage then the one i wanted. Sometimes the page that come up says click verification buttion I click back to the original and re click the link and it then takes me to the requested page. Or i click on the link and it goes to a another type of webpage that has a whole bunch of what i call garbage links. Again if i click back and reclick it goes to the correct page. I have run ad aware, spybot, Norton and defender and it finds nothing. I look in the history and the webpage listing above the original says redirect. Anyone have something similar and know a soultion to it. By the way i had my first earthquake tremor here the other night. I was told they had a 6.4 in the ocean. It rocks the bed alot and woke me up. Thanks for the help

Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 09-08-2007, 12:58 AM:

Sounds pretty similar to the "Cool Web Search" browser hijack hack.

If you have a pretty bad version of it installed your only solution is to back up any critical data, FDISK and completely reinstall your operating system and applications from scratch.

In the future, when web surfing you can take a number of precautions to keep your browser from being hijacked.

1. Do your web surfing from a Mac. That may not be practical for a lot of users however.

2. Never use Internet Explorer for web browsing. Use Firefox instead. Anything that relies on ActiveX is SHIT.

3. Never surf the web from a login with administrator privileges. Both MacOSX and Windows will allow you to set up limited rights "guest" accounts that do a lot to prevent malicious software installations and do more to mask your computer's identity/location.

4. Using anti-virus software, software/hardware firewalls and all sorts of other traditional security measures are a given. All users should be taking those steps. If they're not doing so then they're gambling with their computer system.

Posted by Dennis Benjamin (Member # 1137) on 09-11-2007, 09:24 AM:

quote: Bobby Henderson
1. Do your web surfing from a Mac. That may not be practical for a lot of users however.

Nothing wrong with using a PC. Windows has just given PCs a bad name. There are plenty of other operating systems and web browsers out there that have nothing to do with Winblows.
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