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Problems using Google

Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 8:32 am
by gjb79
Anyone experience problems like this?

A few weeks ago I tried to use google (prior to this everything worked perfectly btw) and got something else completely. I have tried to fix this problem many times, reinstalling internet explorer, viewing host files, even used a feature in spybot that lets you adjust urls that a website may have changed to redirect you to a different site when you tried to view the orignial website. Nothing worked.

Here is what I see when I go to google.com
http://www.gregoryjboyd.com/google.gif

The link is safe, it is a screen shot I took of my browser viewing google.

Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 8:37 am
by twigletmac
Do you have a parasite on your PC? Anything reported by:
http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite/

Mac

Nothing Reported

Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 9:22 am
by gjb79
That website reported nothing (though it loaded so quickly its hard to believe it did a decent sweep of my system)

I have spybot installed, but that detected nothing. Nor did Lavasofts Ad-Aware.

That website had a link to hijackthis. Sounds like it might work I'm going to try it and post the results.

Thanks

Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 9:29 am
by gjb79
:D It worked :!: :!: :!:

Thank you very much Twigletmac!

:arrow: For anyone else that is having this problem, the link will take you to the makers of hijackthis! Its an awesome program. Run it, select the items needing a fix, run the fix program, reboot the pc and your good to go.

http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/

Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 9:37 am
by twigletmac
Cool, parasites and hijacking are generally fairly frustrating to deal with.

Mac

Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 11:08 am
by phice
Ah, a friend of mine had a link placed into her aim profile every time she logged in, and it linked to a website such as that.

Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 7:50 pm
by JAM
gjb79
How did you acuire whatever to get this result?

Personally I never had any problems, but I'm interested as 'you never know, one day'...

Did you click a bad link, click "link this site" link, install some software, using AIM etc.?

Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 4:59 am
by twigletmac
Generally you have no idea how these things happen. It can come from allowing an activex component to run, installing shareware/freeware/cracked stuff off the web. Peer to peer clients are often implicated. I've had a parasite before, don't know where it came from (I'm fairly careful with what I install and run and allow and my internet security setting are high) but it's gone now thanks to doxdesk (oh and no longer using IE :)).

Mac

Not a clue

Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 5:05 pm
by gjb79
I have no clue what caused it. I do know that the problem occured both at home and at work oddly enough. I can not think of one thing that I downloaded/installed/or viewed on both computers. All I can think of is that I did take some files home to work on, and it might have gotten on to my disk when I did that.

Hopefully you'll never have this problem

thanks

Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 6:39 pm
by JAM
Yah those I knew of. Installing software often makes my software shout warnings.

But as Mac sais, not using IE (if not to check when devel), security settings a annoyingly high. It's just that you didn't know how it happened.

You seemed intelligent enough to both understand what it was (more than 'uhm.. something is fubar...') and knew (well almost ;)) how to fix it. I got the feeling that it was something new that the world didn't know of allready...
Nice to see it solved tho.