Sounds bizarre indeed. I found similar problems on a friend's machine. Took it to my son, who installed the free anti-virus product whose name I forget at the moment. Took care of it very nicely, without losing anything. --Don Ellis
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 10:51 PM, Robert Citek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 9:59 PM, Sean Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for any insight. I'm leaving this computer in an hour and > > won't be back on it till tomorrow afternoon. But I'll test anything > > if anyone has an good ideas to test. > > I suspect that machine or a machine on the same network is infected > with DNSChanger or similar. > > > http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/12/a_scary_twist_in_malware_evil-.html?nav=rss_blog > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzNQ0OxNX8E > > One thing to try: boot with an Ubuntu CD and redo your searches. You > can also manually specify OpenDNS as your DNS: > > 208.67.222.222 > 208.67.220.220 > > Regards, > - Robert > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
