Malicious Programs

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Paul Neale

Good day all:
I tried to use the Alta Vista search engine and this message popped up:

Are you lookin for a search engine?
If you are seeing this page, it is because you have downloaded a malicious
program that is keeping you from visiting the page you intended. Please
visit the following URL for information on fixing this problem.

http://www.tweakxp.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3367


I have no idea what happened that I downloaded something malicious, but I'm
hesitant to visit this URL for fear something else would happen. Can you
help a fellow XP'er out?

Thanx

Paul
 
Go to www.lavasoftusa.com, download, install and run Ad Aware. Also, be
sure your antivirus software is up to date and run a virus scan on your
system.
 
Good day all:
I tried to use the Alta Vista search engine and this message popped up:

Are you lookin for a search engine?
If you are seeing this page, it is because you have downloaded a malicious
program that is keeping you from visiting the page you intended. Please
visit the following URL for information on fixing this problem.

http://www.tweakxp.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3367


I have no idea what happened that I downloaded something malicious, but I'm
hesitant to visit this URL for fear something else would happen. Can you
help a fellow XP'er out?

Thanx

Paul
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Tweakxp is a real program and there is a website for it. However, I don't
think I would trust that message either. How did tweakxp.com know what page
you accessed or what your browser was doing?

I just tried www.altavista.com and my browser went right to it.

If you'd like to scan your system for parasites, hijackers or whatnot, try
this page for a quick online checkup:
http://www.aumha.org/a/noads.htm
 
Please explain. You went to the link, did you download, install and run Ad
Aware? Are you saying you run it and it turned up nothing?
 
Tweakxp is a real program and there is a website for it. However, I don't
think I would trust that message either. How did tweakxp.com know what page
you accessed or what your browser was doing?

I just tried www.altavista.com and my browser went right to it.

If you'd like to scan your system for parasites, hijackers or whatnot, try
this page for a quick online checkup:
http://www.aumha.org/a/noads.htm
Click to expand...

Some follow up for you. The symptoms you have described belong to a very
recently discovered trojan. Details can be found here:

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/trojan.qhosts.html
 
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