Any virus like this?

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Martin Feuersteiner

Dear Group

I'm not professional virus hunter so please excuse if my question is
ignorant.

Is there any virus / mean program that redirects to a spoof of
www.windowsupdate.com when you type http://www.windowsupdate.com in your web
browser address bar?

PS: I'm not meaning the HTML emails going around supposedly being sent by
Microsoft and looking just like a Microsoft website.

Thanks for your time & efforts!

Martin
 
Is there any virus / mean program that redirects to a spoof of
www.windowsupdate.com when you type http://www.windowsupdate.com in your web
browser address bar?
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Many. Browser hijackers, "Browser Helper Objects", etc.

Check the "hosts" file (no quotes, no extention) in your windows directory (I'm not sure,
offhand, whether it's in the windows directory, or windows/system directory, on XP).

If there's any entries there, other then "127.0.0.1 localhost", that you didn't put there,
delete them.

Then try running Cwshredder, Adaware, and Spybot Search & destroy.
For adaware, & Spybot Search & destroy, be sure to download the latest updates,
after you install, but before you scan. See
http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads.php?cat=sp

Regards, Dave Hodgins
 
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