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Richard in AZ

I have a customer with an older Compaq 98SE machine. He can connect to the
ISP and seems to be accessing the internet, but can not display any web
site. A text page comes up with a discussion about "the site being
restricted by Safepage.com" for every web address I tried. The computer
did download an update on his AVG antivirus while I was there, so that link
worked in the background. I ran a virus scan which came back clean. Tried
to update Spybot only to get the error message that the update failed (after
a 15 minute download wait). I could not get to Lavasoft to get Ad-Aware.
I will be going back on Monday with updated Ad-Aware and Spybot on a CD to
run these again. But I can't find anything on "Safepage.com" as a malware
or spyware. I could not find any thing in the Add/Remove list that looked
out of place, nor in the "msconfig" listings.

The customer can get his "Encredimail" just fine and he is happy with that
for the moment. I did notice that he had over a 100 addresses in the
Security - restricted site list. He claims he did not put any of these in,
but they looked like sites I would have banded. His Hosts file is the
standard default file.

Anyone with any suggestions, help would be appreciated.
 
run regedit and type in safepage and see if you can find anything in there,
sometimes it may not show up any where because it has been partily removed
but registry key's might remain and mess the system up. once they are gone
then u should get somewere, also find out if it might run under other names
and search for them.
Steve
 
Richard in AZ said:
I have a customer with an older Compaq 98SE machine. He can connect
to the ISP and seems to be accessing the internet, but can not
display any web site. A text page comes up with a discussion about
"the site being restricted by Safepage.com" for every web address I
tried. The computer did download an update on his AVG antivirus
while I was there, so that link worked in the background. I ran a
virus scan which came back clean. Tried to update Spybot only to get
the error message that the update failed (after a 15 minute download
wait). I could not get to Lavasoft to get Ad-Aware. I will be going back
on Monday with updated Ad-Aware and Spybot on a
CD to run these again. But I can't find anything on "Safepage.com"
as a malware or spyware. I could not find any thing in the
Add/Remove list that looked out of place, nor in the "msconfig"
listings.
The customer can get his "Encredimail" just fine and he is happy with
that for the moment. I did notice that he had over a 100 addresses
in the Security - restricted site list. He claims he did not put
any of these in, but they looked like sites I would have banded. His
Hosts file is the standard default file.

Anyone with any suggestions, help would be appreciated.

First eliminate any spyware.
What You Should Know About Spyware
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/devioussoftware.mspx

CAUTION!!!!! Removing some spyware can damage the Winsock stack and you may
not be able to connect to the Internet. Before you try to remove spyware,
download a copy of LSP-Fix - a free program to repair damaged Winsock 2
stacks AFTER you remove the software (all Windows versions)
http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm
Winsockfix for W95, W98, ME, NT, 2000, XP
http://www.tacktech.com/pub/winsockfix/WinsockFix.zip
Directions here: http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=257
WinXP:
Get WinSockxpFix
http://www.spychecker.com/program/winsockxpfix.html
How to Reset Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/299357
In WinXP SP2: You can fix Winsock by going to Start | Run and typing
CMD
In the command window type
netsh winsock reset

See
Dealing with Unwanted Spyware and Parasites
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
Help with Hijackware
http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm
http://aumha.org/a/quickfix.htm
http://aumha.net/viewtopic.php?t=5878
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/data/prevention.htm
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/data/tshoot.htm
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/Malware_Defence.htm
http://defendingyourmachine.blogspot.com

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Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE
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Protect your PC
http://www.microsoft.com./athome/security/protect/default.aspx
http://defendingyourmachine.blogspot.com/
 
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