JohannesK
2009-08-23, 19:10
Hi, i recently became victim of a hijacker? that opens new tabs and new windows in mozilla, directing you to this: http://bestscanpc.biz/win/?code=934#. It seems a variant of bestscanpc.org which might be known:
http://safeweb.norton.com/report/show?name=bestscanpc.org
It disabled IE and hijacks mozilla. Ad aware, spydoctor, norton, spybot and other utils have not found anything, but norton does keep finding tracking cookies everytime this thing launches a window.
Here is what i know or did:
Nothing in Add or remove program list
Don't see unusual processes in taskmanager, but maybe it has a harmless name.
Nothing in msconfig that i know could be it, disabled few start up things that i didn't know, then re-enabled them after they checked out.
Seems only to happen when i start mozilla, doesn't start mozilla or IE by itself.
Didn't change startpage in mozilla.
Nothing in HOST file, just 127.
Please help :)
http://safeweb.norton.com/report/show?name=bestscanpc.org
It disabled IE and hijacks mozilla. Ad aware, spydoctor, norton, spybot and other utils have not found anything, but norton does keep finding tracking cookies everytime this thing launches a window.
Here is what i know or did:
Nothing in Add or remove program list
Don't see unusual processes in taskmanager, but maybe it has a harmless name.
Nothing in msconfig that i know could be it, disabled few start up things that i didn't know, then re-enabled them after they checked out.
Seems only to happen when i start mozilla, doesn't start mozilla or IE by itself.
Didn't change startpage in mozilla.
Nothing in HOST file, just 127.
Please help :)