Posted on 12/09/2010 12:00:17 PM PST by ncfool
Has anybody had a recent problem with Browser hijacking on their computer. Since Saturday when I got infected with a program called Think Point which makes itself look like Microsoft Defender my computer has had all kinds of problems. No matter which Malware program you try and clean it with it still shows back up. We have tried all the major fixes. I am not sure how I got it but it can't be cleaned. There are many sites talking about it.
Now every time I try and do a search using Google, Yahoo, Chrome. You can see where its sending you to for instances a site brawsing-check.com and some others. like plxlestatservlce.com . I don't know if my computer has been attacked becuase of my hitting good sites like Freerepublic.com but it seems weird that I can't get rid of this.
Any help is appreciated.
$19.99 for the KVM switch above.
KINGWIN KF-92-BK SATA Black Aluminum Mobile Rack w/ Security Turn Knob
and use a second hard drive....needs to be SATA.
: $19.99 also.
Yes its a browser hacker expliot. Only program that fixes it is Tdsskiller by kaspersky.
Same problem fixed here.
bump for self.
That happened to me yesterday but my own security had just scanned my computer and found no threats so I deleted what would have been a big problem.
It looked just like a Windows security alert...but it isn't! Tells you that you have all kinds of "threats" to crash your computer.
Bill, you are a life saver. After running AVG,Spybot, and MWB all weekend, I tried the Tdsskiller. Whole process took 5 minutes and the problem is gone!! (The problem I had was my browser was hijacked by “brawser-check”.com)
Hey guys it took me all weekend to figure this out also. I used every malware program to date no avail. But,”Tdsskiller fixes it”.
Rrexx your welcome.
The virus is root virus/ expliot. It re writes itself. Hjack this wont fix it. How to tell if you been infected other then the browser redirect/ hang to Brawsing check. Your windows update site won’t work. Along with slow hang on load up etc.Constant hard drive working noise, Add and remove programs not listing programs etc. It’s a nasty one :)
Laptop has slowed to a crawl.
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