Strange redirect - Is my computer infected?

Discussion in 'Malware Help (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by john_collins, Apr 20, 2011.

  1. john_collins

    john_collins Private E-2

    Hi,

    I have a laptop with Windows 7 and IE8. I also run Norton 360 Premium Edition 4.0.

    When I visited this website:

    <snip>

    I was redirected to the following website, which displayed a fake virus warning:

    <snip>

    I also got a JavaScript popup asking me to click OK to remove the viruses, after which I opened the Task manager and killed the IE process. I didn’t get a warning from Norton about a virus or malware.

    I didn’t have this problem (the redirect) in the latest version of Firefox.

    Then I switched JavaScript to “Prompt” in IE and visited the <snip> again.
    After clicking "No" to all JS load prompts the site loaded just fine without redirecting me.
    After that I reloaded the site and started clicking "Yes" on the JS prompts and on the 3rd one
    I saw in the IE taskbar that the browser was loading something from lshfwq.co.cc and then I was
    redirected to the 0ze.net subdomain mentioned above.

    The <snip> is the only site this redirect is happening on, as far as I can tell.

    I also did the following:

    - I ran SpyBot and it didn’t find anything.
    - I downloaded and ran TDSSKiller.exe from Kaspersky, which didn’t find anything either.
    - I did a registry search for lshfwq.co.cc, but didn’t find anything.
    - I loaded the same site <snip>, from another laptop with Windows 7 and Norton 30 Premium Edition 4.0, but with IE 9 instead of IE 8 and I didn’t have the redirect problem.
    - I did a quick scan Norton and didn’t find anything either

    I’m doing a full scan with Norton now, but this will take a few hours.

    Is my computer infected or is the problem with <snip>
     
    Last edited by a moderator: Apr 21, 2011
  2. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member


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