Hi everyone, I sure hope someone can help, my problem is this, when I logged on to the net last night I discovered every single link in my favourites list has been removed and replaced by links to pornographic websites, after a lengthy swearing session I set about trying to remember some of the links to re-save them to my faves list, however upon logging on tonight the same thing has happened again, is there any chance I can recover my lost links, (some were found by accident and I doubt I can find the sites again, particularly a page dedicated to PACAF F-4s!!!!) and how can I stop this happening again?.
I would be enormously grateful for any help.
-Dazza
By: Flood - 28th December 2003 at 20:58
Dazza – you now have a problem with posting answers twice…;)
Flood.
By: Dazza - 28th December 2003 at 20:52
Thanks for the replies guys, I’ll see if I can finally nail the problem.
-Dazza
By: Dazza - 28th December 2003 at 20:26
Thanks for the replies guys, I’ll see if I can finally nail the problem.
-Dazza
By: mixtec - 28th December 2003 at 20:00
On my comp my favorites are located at:
D:Documents and SettingsBradFavorites
see if you can find such a folder and see whats there.
By: skythe - 28th December 2003 at 14:11
Dazza, I had a simliar problem a few weeks ago with a search engine that hijacked my default home page. It took me a week to get rid of it. Today’s hijackers are very persistant, very sophisticated and quite difficult to get rid of.
The good news is that you’re probably not alone in this matter. First of all, post your problem on the http://computing.net forums, you’ll not only meet people who’ve encountered it but also people who solved it.
Meanwhile, the links that have hijacked your favorites are most probably not random, and that’s a good start. Go to google, and search for something like “explorer” + “favorites” + “replaced” + two or three site names. You should find pages that help you out.
Hope this helps.
By: TGA - 28th December 2003 at 00:56
Dazza, take a look here.
Browser hijacking
and also at this place (I think they can solve any of your problems & it´s free)
Spyware info
By: Dazza - 27th December 2003 at 11:29
I’ve done everthing suggested and to no avail, everytime I log on my favorites list is gone and is replaced with porn links, is there anything else I can do?
-Dazza
By: Sherlock - 26th December 2003 at 22:52
Trojan servers can be anywhere from a few kilobytes to a couple hundreds kilobytes. Mcaffee and Norton AV will both detect if your computer is infected with a trojan.
By: Userflage - 26th December 2003 at 19:36
No. But if those two files are around 80 bytes or less each there probably trojans.
By: Dazza - 26th December 2003 at 19:22
Thanks for the info guys, I’ve installed Zone Alarm firewall and the following two applications keep cropping up, svcinit.exe and mscnt.exe, anyone know what they do?
-Dazza
By: Crusader - 26th December 2003 at 17:38
Originally posted by SOC
Nikumba speaks the truth…AdAware is truly outstanding for keeping offending files and such away from your computer. The first time you run it do a Custom Scan and tell it to search everything.
SpyBot is another great one.
By: SOC - 26th December 2003 at 11:16
Nikumba speaks the truth…AdAware is truly outstanding for keeping offending files and such away from your computer. The first time you run it do a Custom Scan and tell it to search everything.
By: Arabella-Cox - 26th December 2003 at 04:08
maybe the problem is…where have you been on the internet 😀 😀 😀
By: Ren Frew - 26th December 2003 at 01:40
Good advice Nikumba.
By: Nikumba - 25th December 2003 at 23:54
Dazza,
Ren is right you need a firewall but it does not mean you have been hacked, it is possible you viisited a website that exploited a bug in your broswer.
Get yourself a copy of AdAware from here and run it this will find the rouge programme. Also are you running XP or 98? If either of those run a program called msconfig.exe this lets you change what starts up on your PC.
Click on the “Startup” tab and take the tick out of any programme you dont reconise, then restart and that should take care of it, also get an AV programme and run that through just in case you have a virus etc.
Nikumba
By: Dazza - 25th December 2003 at 20:53
Thanks Ren, I’ll get a firewall sorted asap.
-Dazza
By: Ren Frew - 25th December 2003 at 20:03
Get a firewall for starters mate. You’ve been hacked big style, you can get a free firewall from Zone alarm www.zonealarm.com the free version is on the downloads section.
Pay versions such as McAfee’s actually give you the address of the hacker if known. My mate got attempted hacked and went round to see the guy in person.
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December 25, 2003 at 7:52 pm