In addition to what Anirban said (and a web search on browser hijacking should turn up even more reference material), go to your ISP's website and find in their help documents the two IP addresses that they provide you for "DNS" service.
Then go to start > Connect To > (right-click on the name of your internet connection) > Properties > Networking > (highlight Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)) > click Properties > General tab. Make sure that the IP addresses shown there for "...DNS server addresses" match the two your ISP said should be there. These are the IP addresses that your computer relies upon to translate domain names to IP addresses. If a hijacker manages to change your DNS server settings, they can provide fraudulent IP translations, sending you to websites different from the ones you thought you were going to. I have seen far too many reports lately in other forums from people whose computers got hacked/infected who were using AVG. On Sep 25, 11:24 am, chesar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I recently had a virus problem. When I was searching for Los Angeles > Maps, using Google Search, a pop window appeared. My Firefox is > supposed to block such pop up windows. Anyway, at first a pop window > appeared saying my computer is infected. I tried to close it. It won't > close. Soon another pop up window appeared asking me to click on "I > accept". This window also won't allow me to close it. I used Window > Task Manger to close it. It still reappeared and I used the task > manager again. Meanwhile the damage has been done. Also I could not > close the first window. I found out that window became a part of my > screen saver. I also found, the virus eliminated 'the screen saver & > settings' tab from my 'Display Properties' of the monitor. I got the > help to recreate my old screen saver from a friend. I also got back > the above menu options. > > The virus created the following problems: > > Windows XP problem > If there is no activity, the window started shutting down saying "A > problem has been detected and windows has shut down to prevent further > damage". Then it will start again and shuts itself down. This back > and forth process continues until, I shut the power off and restart > the computer. If I do not turn off the computer, the same problem of > shutting down, restarting, shutting down continues. I used AVG and > luckily it eliminated this problem, probably by replacing the virus > affected window files > > Problems when I use the Browsers > The AVG anti virus could not eliminate the following problems with the > browsers that I encountered after the virus attack. I haven't found a > way to eliminate it. I hope somebody can suggest me a way to > eliminate it. > > The first is sites being redirected. If I type in say Air Canada in > Google, Air Canada > web site is one of the many that gets listed. However, once I click > Air > Canada in Google, it takes me to other websites. Same thing happened > when I > typed in Avg in Google and when I clicked on AVG link, it took me a > to > different site. It happens with both Firefox & Internet Explorer (IE). > In each case, it is being redirected to different sites > > Another problem is if I type in a url like AVG.com, I get a message > "Failed to > connect" or 'No address found". This happens both with Firefox and > IE. For IE, the message window says "This page cannot be displayed" > That means when I type the site address using keypad, there is > problem. If I click on a site from bookmark, this does not happen. > This means I can only go to sites that have been bookmarked already. > Also sometimes I see a mesage - 'Connection is interrupted. The > connection to the server was reset while page loading. already > bookmarked' > > Also I noticed it is taking longer time to download a web site. > Another problem that I encountered is "content encoding error" . This > happens when I go to a bookmarked site and make selections. Once > clicked the selections, the site is supposed to send me info based on > my selection. Instead I get the encoding error. > > My questions is - Is there anyway to correct the above problems > without reformatting it. > Any help would be greatly appreciated > > Chesar --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message through the Google Groups "stopbadware" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stopbadware?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
