Why Ww17?

Chaos Annihilator · Jun 9, 2026 at 1:05 PM

Hello,

I just have a question, I don't think I need a specialist, but I couldn't find the forum to post general questions for anyone to answer, so please let me know if I should have asked this someplace else.

Twice during the past couple of weeks, when I would type in a URL for a website I normally go to, it changes it automatically to ww17.

The first time I did walmart.com, and when I press enter it usually changes to www.walmart.com and takes me to walmart. But once it changed to ww17.walmart.com. I don't know where it would have taken me, I closed out quickly and tried again, and it worked like normal. Just today it did the same thing with accuweather.com. I hit enter, and instead of going to www.accuweather.com it went to ww17.accuweather.com.

I asked a friend, and she said she noticed the same thing a while back, the only one she can remember is ww5.walmart.com, and once she got a ww3. She responded the same as me, closed the window too quick to tell what would have happened.

Is this a normal thing I never noticed before, or is something strange going on?

Thanks.

Oh My! · Jun 9, 2026 at 2:07 PM

Greetings and welcome back to the Major Geeks Malware Forum.

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That is not normal. Please do this.

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Farbar Recovery Scan Tool (FRST)

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Download FRST64 and save the file on your Desktop

If your computer language is other than English right click on the FRST64 icon and rename it to FRST64english

Right click on the icon and select Run as administrator

Note: If you receive any warning about the download it is a false positive and you can ignore it. Click on More info to get the Run anyway option

Click Yes to the disclaimer

Click Scan and allow the program to run

When completed, FRST.txt and Addition.txt reports will be saved on the Desktop

Please attach the reports to your reply

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Attached reports

Chaos Annihilator · Jun 9, 2026 at 4:35 PM

Hello again, and thanks for helping me out again.

As usual, since my friend was experiencing something similar she would like for us to check her computer as well once we finish here.

We've been having some issues lately with our internet being intermittent. I don't know if this would have anything to do with the urls changing, but I figured I'd let you know in case; maybe it dropping out affects the path? But when I get the ww17 I never notice the internet being down. I called our service provider about it a couple of times, but they treat me like I'm stupid (I say "the green light blinks when I can't connect", they say "Are your lights doing anything?" "Yes, I just said it was blinking" "That means it's fine!" "No, I'm telling you that it starts blinking when I can't connect" "It looks fine to me..."). A family member has been going though some health issues the past couple of weeks, so arguing with some guy about whether I can tell if a light is blinking, and whether I can tell if I have internet or not keeps being pushed farther down on my todo list. Everything bad seems to happen at once, doesn't it?

The reports are attached. Thanks!

Oh My! · Jun 10, 2026 at 10:02 AM

Thanks for your patience.

Let's start with this.

==================== Memory info ===========================

BIOS: LENOVO 8TCN61WW 05/19/2021
Motherboard: LENOVO LNVNB161216
Processor: Intel® Core™ i3-8130U CPU @ 2.20GHz
Percentage of memory in use: 82%
Total physical RAM: 4005.22 MB
Available physical RAM: 696.78 MB
Total Virtual: 6053.22 MB
Available Virtual: 1678.89 MB
Click to expand...

This is an insufficient amount of available free RAM to properly run the system. Some system performance issues should be expected.

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Uninstalling Programs Using Revo Uninstaller Free Portable

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Download Revo Uninstaller Free Portable and save it to your Desktop

Right click on the folder and select Extract All..., then click Extract

Double click on the RevoUninstaller-Portable folder

Right click on RevoUPort and select Run as administrator

Click OK on the License Agreement

From the list of programs double click on the listed program(s), or anything similar, to remove it (if it exists)
Code:
Lenovo App Explorer
If the program's uninstaller appears work through the steps to remove the program(s)

Be sure the Advanced option is selected then click Scan

For each window that may appear identifying leftover items click Select All, Delete, then confirm the deletion

Once done click Finish

Reboot your computer

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Uninstalling Adobe Flash Player

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Note: Adobe Flash Player is no longer supported and is a security risk.

Download Adobe Flash Player Uninstaller and save it to your Desktop

Right click on the icon and select Run as administrator

Click Uninstall then Done to reboot your computer

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Farbar Recovery Scan Tool - Run Fix Using Attached File

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Download the attached file and save it in the same location as FRST.exe (example, Desktop, USB device) <<< Important

Right click on FRST and select Run as administrator

Click Fix and once completed your computer will reboot

The tool will create a log on the desktop called Fixlog.txt

Copy and paste the contents of the report in your reply. If it is too large you can attach it or uploaded here

Note: This step resets your Firewall settings and you may be asked later to grant permission for legitimate programs to pass through the Firewall. If you recognize the program agree to the request.

WARNING Regarding the Emptytemp: command, please see here before running the Fixlist. If you have concerns stop and let me know.

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Lenovo App Explorer removed?

Flash Player removed?

Fixlog

Chaos Annihilator · Jun 10, 2026 at 12:48 PM

I didn't realize it until late last night, but my old computer was struggling with an update yesterday. It finally finished up this morning, so I should have more available RAM today. I'll work on this over the next couple of hours and get back to you. Thanks!

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Why Ww17?

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Attached Files:

Addition.txt

FRST.txt

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Attached Files:

Fixlist.txt

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