Re: www.microsoft.com blocked!

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"David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote in message news:eMDEhyZAGHA.140@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
From: "Joe S." <bruinwarBLAH@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


| Thanks, I it & was beginning to mess with it. Trend found beagle, but I had
| to stop the scan because of other issues. Going to go through a complete
| scan using all 4 tonight.
|
| The hosts file had many MS sites set to 127.0.0.1 . I replaced that file
| with another. Now I can get to MS sites except
| windowsupdate.microsoft.com. Now it seem to get re-directed somehow to
| msn.com. I can now ping windowsupdate.microsoft.com (before it came up as
| 127.0.0.1), Firefox can go there (but of course not use it) but MS IE goes
| to MSN for some reason.
|
| I am thinking a flush is in order here, new build won't take much longer
| than trying to remove whatever it is infected with. I am going to run that
| AV stuff you linked first, if nothing else, I am curious about it & it seems
| very cool. =)
|

YW. If is is not a virus than you may have adware/spyware. Probably a Browser Helper
Object redirecting IE away from the windows update web site.

For non-viral malware...

Please download, install and update the following software...

* Ad-aware SE v1.06
 http://www.lavasoft.de/
 http://www.lavasoftusa.com/

* SpyBot Search and Destroy v1.4
 http://security.kolla.de/

After the software is updated, I suggest scanning the system in Safe Mode.

I also suggest downloading, installing and updating BHODemon for any Browser Helper Objects
that may be on the PC.

* BHODemon
 http://www.definitivesolutions.com/bhodemon.htm



--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm



Yes, I generally use the "big three", but this being Win2K I could only use the 2 you suggested. Yes it found stuff. No it did not repair the problem. BHODemon looks cool. The guy says no more updates for it though. =( Think maybe it's still useful? I steer away from non-supported/updatable anti-malware software because sometimes malicious software will be written specifically targeting the un-updated software.

The computer's owner took his machine today. Bringing it back Friday & I plan on wiping it & starting from scratch, new build time.

Again, thanks for your help.



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