CoxCable4
banned from most servers for cheating
join:2002-10-02
PwnZone
 ·RoadRunner Cable
| isohunt.com adware
I was visiting isohunt today with internet explorer (yes I know, bad idea, but the forums dont work half the time in anything but IE) and an ad or something on the site there totally infected my computer with adware.
now i'm stucking getting rid of awola and other baddies, which btw locks you out of regedit, task manager, and many other administrative programs, and runs in normal and safe mode.
so don't use IE to browse isohunt.com |
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Doctor Four
My other vehicle is a TARDIS
Premium
join:2000-09-05
Dallas, TX
 ·AT&T U-Verse
·RoadRunner Cable
 ·AT&T Yahoo
edit:
May 11th, @07:45PM
| Mininova got hit with a malvertizement as well the other
day. That one, a banner ad for Neilsen/NetRatings NetPanel,
redirected to xponlinescanner.com, a known fraudware/scareware
site similar to WinFixer and its ilk: »msmvps.com/blogs/spywaresucks/ar···896.aspx
It appears to be dead now, but has had a history of coming
back, even after the admins banned the ad domains responsible
for the redirects.
An up to date hosts file (such as WinHelp2002's MVPS one or
HPGuru's) is one of the best defenses against these rogue
redirects.
In your case, I think a visit to »Security Cleanup is in order.
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"The trouble with computers, of course, is that they are very sophisticated idiots." - Doctor Who (from Robot)
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