Re: [Full-Disclosure] !! Internet Explorer !!

[Brian Toovey]

This has been addressed already in the list.  You could be infected with anything at this point, and should run some kind of spyware removal tool.  Please review the list archive for this week.

On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 10:35, Farrukh Hussain wrote:

Hey,
       Yesterday i was visitng web sites. so i felt my computer slow. and that time i shutdown my computer and go somewhere. now today i restarted my computer and when i open internet explorer i got Web Page. Which i didn't SET. and now i am not able to write www.anydomain.com . when i type it gave me error. and it is also opening Popup window advertise. and it has 2 files in my windows directory. when i removed them it comes back again. So please tell me,
1) what  is  it? 
2) how i can delete/remove it ?
3) how i got this thing ?
4) how to secure from this thing ?

here is the 1 page from many pages in internet explorer.
http://www.farukh.com/1.GIF


Best Regards from,
Farrukh Hussain.

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