Yahoo Home Page

Discussion in 'Malware Help (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by nlmullen, Aug 23, 2005.

  1. nlmullen

    nlmullen Private E-2

    When I go onto the internet, instead of my usual homepage www.att.net coming up, it takes me directly to a yahoo home page. I can easily get to my homepage by clicking the house on the toolbar. However, when I click certain links on webpages that I am viewing it takes me to the same yahoo page. This does not happen with every link but it happens often. Have I been hijacked?

    I ran adaware and mcafee antivirus. Adaware came up with 31 critical errors which I deleted, but it has not fixed my problem.

    I would appreciate any help you could give me. Thanks.

    Leisa
     
  2. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    Please follow the steps below:

    Download HOSTER and then follow the below steps.
    • Unzip Hoster to a convenient folder such as C:\Hoster
    • Run Hoster.exe, click Restore Original Hosts and then click OK.
    • Click the X to exit the program
    - Now run ALL the steps in this Sticky thread READ ME FIRST BEFORE ASKING FOR SUPPORT: Basic Spyware, Trojan And Virus Removal

    Make sure you check version numbers and get all updates.

    - Very Important: Make sure you tell us the results from running the tutorial...was anything found? Were you unable to complete any of the scans?...Were you unable to download any of the tools?...Did you do the on-line scans as suggested? etc.



    After doing ALL of the above you still have a problem make sure you have booted to normal mode and run the steps below:

    - Download HijackThis 1.99.1

    - Unzip the hijackthis.exe file to a folder you create named C:\Program Files\HJT

    - Do NOT run Hijack This from the Desktop, a temp folder, or a sub-folder of C:\Documents and Settings, or choose to run it directly from the downloaded ZIP file.

    - Before running HijackThis: You must close each of the following:your web browser, e-mail client, instant messenger, and programs like notepad, wordpad, MS Word etc. And any other unnecessary running programs.

    - Run HijackThis and save your log file.

    - Post your log as an ATTACHMENT to your next message. (Do NOT copy/paste the log into your post).
     

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