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Carl -----Original Message----- From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 12:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Searches being hijacked to show results from "search.pro" Oh I wish I'd known about that link before I gave up and wiped a laptop (good friend of wife, I didn't have plans of course I'd be happy to help her out dear) Sunday. Nasty little piece of work would disable AV and lock me out of the file system path. So I eventually just nuked the system and built it properly, probably for the best. Steven On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Alex Eckelberry<al...@sunbelt-software.com> wrote: > Or run the free VIPRE tools: > > http://live.sunbeltsoftware.com/ > Or > http://www.vipreantivirus.com/ > > All free. > > > > Also check your host file to see if it's been modified as well as your local > DNS settings... > > > > Alex > > > From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] > Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 10:26 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Searches being hijacked to show results from "search.pro" > > > > I would also recommend scanning with a copy of MalwareBytes from > www.malwarebytes.com. Its a free anti-malware app that has found stuff that > our antivirus/anti-spyware app overlooked. > > > From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 10:03 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Searches being hijacked to show results from "search.pro" > > > > Try HijackThis or similar. Looks like something has sneaked right under your > radar > > 2009/7/21 Bill Monicher <bmacd5...@gmail.com> > > Has anyone seen this before? > > When I do a search using Google or Yahoo, I'm presented with the usual > list of links matching the search terms. > > When I click on one, I am very briefly presented with a page with a > beige rectangle in the centre and an arrow. > The legends says "Skip this page" and "Your request is loading" > When it completes I am at www.search.pro, not the seach choice I wanted. > > I'm using Firefox. > AVG w/ all of the latest updates > > I looked in the usual places -- add-ons, extensions etc but to no avail. > The URL on the "redirect" page seems to change several time before it > shows the list of choices. > shopica.com is often there, tho I've seen others. > the URL of the destination is www.search.pro > > Has anyone seen this? > It appears new -- there is little on google about it, but then > searching on "search" or "pro" is hardly going to narrow the field > much. > > My surfing habits make this sort of thing very rare, so I've no idea > how I got it. It has only shown up over the past week or so. > > --BM ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
