Re: Orbit Explorer

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From: Frank Saunders, MS-MVP (franksaunders_at_mvps.org)
Date: 03/06/04 

Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 15:30:14 -0600

"Alric Knebel" <alric_j@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:OM6URx7AEHA.3804@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl
> Recently, an extremely aggressive form of popup -- and hard to spot as
> such -- has taken over IE. Whenever a link can not be found, the
> original white page describing the failure comes up (you're all
> familiar with this page: it has the red underlined hyperlinks about
> Internet Settings and so on), but is quickly replaced by something
> that looks almost identical to it, except the URL is something called
> Orbitexplorer. At the same time this page appears, an "expanded
> banner" also appears in a new IE window, with a URL
> http://images.trafficmp.com/tmpad/ (with other stuff after the
> "tmpad," depending on the ad); it's minimized but you can open it all
> the way. I know that there is something hijacking IE, but I can't
> locate the file doing it. I've tried searching for key words, and
> all I get is some temp files in the Temp folder.
>
> Orbit Explorer is just a search engine, with a home page. The page
> that comes up is a facsimile of the "Page Not Found" page so familiar
> to us, and I guess the developers are hoping we're tricked by it.
> Help me if you can. E-mail me if you want to.
>
> Alric Knebel

First eliminate any scumware.
See
Dealing with Unwanted Spyware, Parasites, Toolbars and Search Engines
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm

Note that AdAware and SpyBot S & D will each catch some things the other
won't. Also, each needs to be updated before every use, even when just
downloaded. There's also a lot more to do than just those two programs.
CWShredder is also available here:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/cwshredder.zip
**Post your HijackThis log to
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/ or the Spyware forum at
http://forum.aumha.org/ for expert analysis, not here.**
Alternative download pages for Ad-Aware, Spybot, HijackThis and CWShredder
may be found on this page:
http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm.
If trying everything at that site does not fix the problem please post back
in the same thread. 

-- 
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE
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