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T-dot
Joined: 16 May 2004
Location: bundang
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 Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 2:07 am Post subject: browser hijack redirect/Microsoft Antispyware |
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keeps getting found whenever i do a scan. Everytime i use Microsoft antispyware, it gets caught. It gets removed, but never goes away.
How do I actually get rid of it. SE and Spybot never find these files. Thought it was just a false alarm, but now I dunno.
Each time it says hijack redirect to some Spyware security site like Spybot S&D. |
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denverdeath
Joined: 21 May 2005
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| Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 4:08 am Post subject: |
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This article is a little old, but may still apply to your situation...
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6594
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Mar. 02, 2005 03:08 PM
Is Microsoft so hard up for traffic that it has to resort to the sleazy tactics of spyware makers? Based on one feature of the beta of Microsoft AntiSpyware, that appears to be the case.
Overall, Microsoft AntiSpyware, is a very good, solid piece of software. But it has one particularly disturbing feature -- in essence, it hijacks your home page, and so is guilty of doing the very thing it's supposed to be protecting you against. And, as you might guess, it hijacks your home page to -- surprise! -- MSN.com.
How does it do this? In a devilishly simple and exceedingly misleading manner. When it detects that a hijacker is trying to reset your home page, it warns you and then asks whether you want to block the hijacker. When you answer yes, Microsoft AntiSpyware promptly blocks the hijacker. But it then does a hijack of its own and resets your home page to MSN.com.
If you dig deep enough, you can defeat AntiSpyware's home page hijacking. Choose Advanced Tools-->Browser Hijack Restore, and highlight Start Page. Click "Change restore settings to a new URL," type in your normal home page, then click OK. From now on, when Microsoft blocks a home page hijacking, it will let you keep your own home page, and won't do a hijacking on its own.
Microsoft AntiSpyware is still in beta, so let's hope that Microsoft changes this behavior. Apart from this grubby little feature, it's an excellent spyware killer -- one of the best ones out there. |
The only problem with my theory is that you never mentioned your homepage being set to, or being redirected to, msn.com, right?
I still recommend checking out www.cybertechhelp.com and see what they have to tell you. Maybe install Spywareblaster, too. |
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BigBlackEquus
Joined: 05 Jul 2005
Location: Lotte controls Asia with bad chocolate!
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| Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 6:05 am Post subject: |
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Obviously written by someone who has a bone to pick with Microsoft.
I have used that program for months, and installed it on several computers. It's not at all like that article is saying. It is very simple to change the program to set your homepage to whatever it wants. It defaults to Microsoft until you change it. So what? What else should they have chosen? Apple.com? |
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T-dot
Joined: 16 May 2004
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| Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 8:11 am Post subject: |
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doesnt hijck my homepage at all.
its the fact that this hijack is always found whenever i scan with microsoft antispyware. |
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denverdeath
Joined: 21 May 2005
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| Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 2:35 pm Post subject: |
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BigBlackEquus might be right. Who knows? But, we can also talk about anti-trust...
Is the name "hijacker redirect/microsoft antispyware"? Isn't is a bit more detailed than that? Try what the article I posted said and see if it happens again. The other interesting thing I read recently was that when you have more than one antivirus program installed, one may pick up the names of viruses in the database of the other and people think they have a virus when they really don't. |
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T-dot
Joined: 16 May 2004
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| Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 5:34 pm Post subject: |
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| denverdeath wrote: |
BigBlackEquus might be right. Who knows? But, we can also talk about anti-trust...
Is the name "hijacker redirect/microsoft antispyware"? Isn't is a bit more detailed than that? Try what the article I posted said and see if it happens again. The other interesting thing I read recently was that when you have more than one antivirus program installed, one may pick up the names of viruses in the database of the other and people think they have a virus when they really don't. |
thats what i think is happening. Microsoft antispyware considers other antispywares as hijacks. all the redirects have led to antispyware home sites such as spybot. I just uninstalled the program all together. |
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