Have I been hijacked

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Heather Lee

Using Windows XP Home and IE 6.00 SP1
I suddenly discovered that every time I try to open a non existing web-page
(or temporarily out of serivce web-page) Explorer immediatly goes to
WWW.MARSFIND.COMX (I put the xtra x after .com so nobody will accidently
access this page :-) It did not use to do this before. Have I been hijacked
by one of those java applet viruses similar to global-finder/Bootconf etc.?

If so where in the registry do I remove this string to get back to my old
settings?
Do you think it has modified other things on my computer?

I do not know when this happened (maybe a month ago) so restoring to an
older registry may not be the solution!?
Is it possible to set WinXP to a month old registry? How? Maybe it causes
more problems than it solves?

Thanks H
 
Using Windows XP Home and IE 6.00 SP1
I suddenly discovered that every time I try to open a non existing web-page
(or temporarily out of serivce web-page) Explorer immediatly goes to
WWW.MARSFIND.COMX (I put the xtra x after .com so nobody will accidently
access this page :-) It did not use to do this before. Have I been hijacked
by one of those java applet viruses similar to global-finder/Bootconf etc.?

If so where in the registry do I remove this string to get back to my old
settings?
Do you think it has modified other things on my computer?

I do not know when this happened (maybe a month ago) so restoring to an
older registry may not be the solution!?
Is it possible to set WinXP to a month old registry? How? Maybe it causes
more problems than it solves?

Thanks H
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Go to download.com and get a program called "Hijack This".
 
I tried to run Hijack-This downloaded from ( http://www.tomcoyote.org/hjt/ )
but all I get is a message that says,
"Can't find the necessary DLL file MSVBVM60.DLL" !

Is this file a legitimate part of Windows 98 or is this a sign that I really
have been hijacked?

If MSVBVM60.DLL is a legitimate windows file how do I reinstall it?
Do I need to reinstall the entire Win98?
Any help is appreciated
Thanks H
 
In Message-ID:<[email protected]> posted on Tue, 18
I tried to run Hijack-This downloaded from ( http://www.tomcoyote.org/hjt/ )
but all I get is a message that says,
"Can't find the necessary DLL file MSVBVM60.DLL" !

Is this file a legitimate part of Windows 98 or is this a sign that I really
have been hijacked?

If MSVBVM60.DLL is a legitimate windows file how do I reinstall it?
Do I need to reinstall the entire Win98?
Any help is appreciated
Thanks H
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Yes it's a legit runtime file, and one that is used by many
applications, so it's a little surprising you don't have it.
In any case it's here:
http://w1.401.telia.com/~u40118856/msvbvm60.zip
Unzip and put it in your system folder.
 
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