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IE6 Help

Delarian

2003-11-25, 7:42 pm

I don't know if this is the right place to ask but I couldn't find anywhere else to.

A couple of days ago I noticed that I was getting random hyperlinks throughout the pages I was looking at. One of them was a game guide and every time the word "games" was placed, it was a hyperlink displayed in the status bar as "goto:games" though upon examination of the properties of each link, the addresses were different. This has happened many more times with words like "gambling" and "diamond" and "travel" throughout any pages I look at. If any of those words are displayed, it always has some sort of "goto:whatever" link for that word.

Is this some sort of virus because I have run norton and mcafee and they have not found any, as well as adaware and spybot and they have found no new spyware on my system either.

Any help with getting rid of this annoyance is appreciated. If there are any specific questions you have, please let me know and I will try to answer them to help you help me.

jarbob69

2003-11-25, 10:19 pm

You have spyware/malware installed on your system. Spefically, there is something installed that has hijacked your web browser. Download and run these tools

Spybot Search and Destroy
http://www.safer-networking.org/

Ad-Aware 6
http://www.lavasoftusa.com

After you install them and first run them, be sure to download the lastest signature update files from within the program. Then scan your system with one program, then the other. I find that both catch things that the other will not, so I run both from time to time.

Delarian

2003-11-26, 1:15 am

Thanks, I had run both of those programs previously and neither had found anything. I had forgotten to update the detection list and after I had it found the problem right away!

curiousgeorge

2003-11-26, 1:35 am

Search and Destroy is a great tool. I've used it a lot on my company's network.

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