nameless_one
2007-08-19, 10:41
Hi all.
I've noticed the last week or so that when I tried to open a few bookmarks, I was sent to miscellanious sites instead. (you know when a site shuts down & the domain is taken up by a search-engine/advertising site, usually with a big picture and a list of 'popular searches', usually related to the previous site?)
Anyway, someone said it sounded like hijacking, which brought me straight here.
I've used your "SpyAxe, SpySheriff, Winhound, Spywarestrike" instructions which I already had saved and have run through all the steps.
I just want to confirm that I've done everything properly and there's nothing I've missed (and that I've used the right set of instructions).
Oh, and the instructions (from 2006) say to use Ewido, but when I looked on their site, they had merged with AVG - and the latest version is apparently "AVG Anti-Spyware 7.5", which I used.
I hope that's ok.
Here are the logfiles the instructions say to include:
(will post in the reply)
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* So you don't get confused, there are 2 Ewido/AVG logs because I screwed the first one up (I told it to stop quarantining whole zipfiles because I wanted to find their locations after the AVG had quarantined everything else, but didn't realise I'd have to do a second scan just to be able to see the 'filepaths' of what AVG had found - (it doesn't show you the 'filepaths' once it's finished performing 'actions' on what it's found during the search))
-1st Ewido (AVG Anti-Spyware 7.5) log:
** Sorry again, both of these AVG scan reports are way too long (2x 4mb txt files!!).
I tried to submit this whole post and was told to shorten it from (4073110 characters -!!) to 20000 characters.
If / when someone reads and is willing to help, let me know how I can send you the 2 AVG scan reports (I used winrar to zip one from 4.5mb to 63kb for example)
Anyway, please let me know how I can send them to you or submit them to the forum somewhere.
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** Sorry again, both of the AVG scan reports are way too long (2x 4mb txt files!!). :rolleyes:
I tried to submit this whole post and was told to shorten it from (4073110 characters -!!) to 20000 characters.
If / when someone reads and is willing to help, let me know how I can send you the 2 AVG scan reports (I used winrar to zip one from 4.5mb to 63kb for example)
Anyway, please let me know how I can send them to you or submit them to the forum somewhere.
That's everything.
Please let me know if I've missed anything or used the wrong instructions or anything like that.
Thanks.
I've noticed the last week or so that when I tried to open a few bookmarks, I was sent to miscellanious sites instead. (you know when a site shuts down & the domain is taken up by a search-engine/advertising site, usually with a big picture and a list of 'popular searches', usually related to the previous site?)
Anyway, someone said it sounded like hijacking, which brought me straight here.
I've used your "SpyAxe, SpySheriff, Winhound, Spywarestrike" instructions which I already had saved and have run through all the steps.
I just want to confirm that I've done everything properly and there's nothing I've missed (and that I've used the right set of instructions).
Oh, and the instructions (from 2006) say to use Ewido, but when I looked on their site, they had merged with AVG - and the latest version is apparently "AVG Anti-Spyware 7.5", which I used.
I hope that's ok.
Here are the logfiles the instructions say to include:
(will post in the reply)
---
* So you don't get confused, there are 2 Ewido/AVG logs because I screwed the first one up (I told it to stop quarantining whole zipfiles because I wanted to find their locations after the AVG had quarantined everything else, but didn't realise I'd have to do a second scan just to be able to see the 'filepaths' of what AVG had found - (it doesn't show you the 'filepaths' once it's finished performing 'actions' on what it's found during the search))
-1st Ewido (AVG Anti-Spyware 7.5) log:
** Sorry again, both of these AVG scan reports are way too long (2x 4mb txt files!!).
I tried to submit this whole post and was told to shorten it from (4073110 characters -!!) to 20000 characters.
If / when someone reads and is willing to help, let me know how I can send you the 2 AVG scan reports (I used winrar to zip one from 4.5mb to 63kb for example)
Anyway, please let me know how I can send them to you or submit them to the forum somewhere.
---
** Sorry again, both of the AVG scan reports are way too long (2x 4mb txt files!!). :rolleyes:
I tried to submit this whole post and was told to shorten it from (4073110 characters -!!) to 20000 characters.
If / when someone reads and is willing to help, let me know how I can send you the 2 AVG scan reports (I used winrar to zip one from 4.5mb to 63kb for example)
Anyway, please let me know how I can send them to you or submit them to the forum somewhere.
That's everything.
Please let me know if I've missed anything or used the wrong instructions or anything like that.
Thanks.