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richie m

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    Attack of the Swedish Government website!!!
    « on: June 26, 2007, 09:42:38 AM »
    i have a bizarre problem with my laptop, whenever i open firefox instead of having a google search bar on my screen i have a swedish government website and when i try to search for anything i get a different swedish government site! I've deleted firefox and re-installed it and thats made no difference. I get the same response from internet explorer
      Any help would be very much appreciated.

    TehGerg

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    Re: Attack of the Swedish Government website!!!
    « Reply #1 on: June 26, 2007, 09:48:05 AM »
    Beware the Swede's

    Do a virus scan and a spyware scan.  www.download.com search for ad-aware download that and install it.  Update when prompted and run it sounds like you have an infection

    richie m

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      Re: Attack of the Swedish Government website!!!
      « Reply #2 on: June 26, 2007, 09:53:32 AM »
      I have done a scan with avg which found no threats but said two fies had been changed kernel.dl? and hosts?
       Means nothing to me, i'll download some spyware and see what it finds. ta

      richie m

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        Re: Attack of the Swedish Government website!!!
        « Reply #3 on: June 26, 2007, 11:18:38 AM »
        Have ran-without success

        Windows Defender
        Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool
        AVG Anti-Virus
        AVG Anti-Spyware

        Help?

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          Re: Attack of the Swedish Government website!!!
          « Reply #4 on: June 26, 2007, 11:22:39 AM »
          If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.
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          Re: Attack of the Swedish Government website!!!
          « Reply #5 on: June 26, 2007, 03:06:30 PM »
          Check your Homepage - it may have been hijacked..
          One good deed is worth more than a year of good intentions.

          richie m

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            Re: Attack of the Swedish Government website!!!
            « Reply #6 on: June 26, 2007, 03:26:25 PM »
            I did check my homepage and it was ok changed it to msn and still didn't work.
              I've a new problem now after using lspfix i've no internet connection. I could do with some suggestions before it goes out a window!

            richie m

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              Re: Attack of the Swedish Government website!!!
              « Reply #7 on: June 26, 2007, 04:25:21 PM »
              Thanks to the people behind winsock xpfix my connection problem has been solved and no more swedish websites!   :)

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              Re: Attack of the Swedish Government website!!!
              « Reply #8 on: June 26, 2007, 04:38:35 PM »
              2K's the man...
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