Re: Hijacked

From: Flossie (flossie_at_guess-where-i-am.com)
Date: 04/13/04


Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 18:41:03 +0000 (UTC)


"RickB" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1c35401c4217b$16914650$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> A couple of days ago, I picked up a virus that blew right
> through my Norton security.
>
> This thing will randomly take me to "searchpage.cc/1507",
> some sort of online pharmacy and search portal. Norton
> gave me some things to do, and told me to download some
> patches for Internet Explorer.
>
> Lo and behold, this thing is still on my computer, and
> it's preventing me from downloading any IE updates as
> well as spyware blockers, etc. Anybody have any ideas?
>
> Rick

Have you tried downloading " Ad-Aware " or " Spybot Search & Destroy " from
there respective sites ? If you haven`t got a Anti-Virus program installed i
suggest you download one like AVG Free Edition from www.grisoft.com .

Hope this sort of help`s.

Flossie

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