Posted on 04/06/2005 3:35:31 PM PDT by Eagle9
I run anti-spyware programs once a week.
Good, but this attack is perfect for phishing. Even if you're paranoid and manually type in http://paypal.com, if the attacker has gotten to the DNS server you're using you'll still get sent to the fake site.
Tech ping.
Actually, there are several things you can do.
You could run a local DNS caching server on you home network, for example. It's pretty easy to set one up in Linux, BSD, or Solaris.
Or you could just configure you TCP/IP connection to use a DNS server known to be reliable. The OpenRoot Foundation's DNS servers are quite good, and they invite everyone to use them:
http://support.open-rsc.org/
This thing keeps moving my home page from google to some searchnet crap and it keeps putting crap in my favorites. We have anti-spyware up and running but everytime I start up my computer it gets high-jacked. Any clue as to how to get rid of this?
Who proof reads this stuff?
Those whose ISPs are smart and thus running Linux should not see any issues at all.
Not to be confused with ptomaine poisoning...
Exactly.
Have you ran HijackThis! yet?
If you are running XP, make sure you have rollback turned OFF. That is one reason why I do not allow my company to use XP. Its features can be used against it. Windows 2000 here.
i've had really good luck with this new cleaner - free -
http://www.download.com/1200-2018-5139934.html
and also www.antivirus.com has a new free scanning tool that detects viruses, trojans and spyware -
look for the beta version, 'housecall'
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
I just lost my computer to these evil bast*ards. I ended up hijacked to about.com. As I began running spyware, adware, & malware programs to clean the machine (one program alone found over 189 pieces of malicious programs & registry entries!) my computer became more & more unstable. At one point, the video began to flash (like it was trying to refesh itself) which prevented me from navigating by mouse. I finally found, quarantined, & deleted a program called "lexplore" which is the Sodabot virus. This gave me back SOME functionality, but most of my Microsoft programs had been uninstalled or disabled. Control Panel, for instance, was gone completely. I can't say for a certainty how my machine was infected, but I don't think it's a coincidence that I had just finished downloading Windows & Explorer updates. I am thus assuming that the Microsoft server was compromised.
Computer is now with my Geek getting a fresh install of everything right down to the OS & that's going to cost me, bigtime. Why is it that we can't go after the companies who benefit from hijacking through class action lawsuits or even under the RICO laws of the U.S.? I understand having no recourse for companies licensed & located outside the U.S., but there's a lot of U.S. companies that obviously stand to benefit from this malicious invasion. One would have to be a complete idiot to believe that sites like about.com aren't complicit in these attacks.
check out my tale of woe on Post 14 & take some advice...don't even try to fix it yourself. I spent something like 20 hours running scan & fix-it programs of every stripe. Very cleverly, there's some sort of code that will eventually try to protect the offender by disabling your ability to remove programs or access your registry to delete bogus entries.
I have printed out all your info and will let my son go through it all. I really appreciate this whole posting and each one of your inputs. :)
Format C:
Throw your computer out the window and buy a Mac!
Boot into Safe Mode and then run your anti-spyware tools.
Booting into Safe Mode only loads necessary processes. You can't remove some spyware while their malicious processes are running. And, you can't kill the processes.
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