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ComSec Trusted SF Member
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Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2003 5:42 pm Post subject: Sneaky Toolbar Hijacks Browsers |
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Sneaky Toolbar Hijacks Browsers
It's the most evil thing on the Internet, according to some of its victims. But it's not a virus, a scam or a raunchy porn site.
It's a browser toolbar that some swear is doing "drive-by downloads" -- installing itself without users' permission -- then taking over their systems and making it impossible to uninstall.
"When I find the bastards who programmed this thing I'd be happy to castrate them with a pair of dull pinking shears," fumed one of Xupiter's many unhappy victims in a newsgroup posting.
Xupiter is an Internet Explorer toolbar program. Once active in a system, it periodically changes users' designated homepages to xupiter.com, redirects all searches to Xupiter's site, and blocks any attempts to restore the original browser settings.
The program attempts to download updates each time an affected computer boots up, and has been blamed for causing system crashes. Several versions of Xupiter also appear to download other programs, such as gambling games, which later appear in pop-up windows.
Some said that Xupiter has taken over their browsers.
"Random words and characters now appear when I attempt to enter info on search sites or other forms. It's as if there's a ghost in my machine," New York resident Beth Vanesky said.
Xupiter.com is registered to a company called Tempo Internet, in Gyongyos, Hungary. Calls and e-mails to Tempo were not returned.......continued
http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,57467,00.html
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Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2003 9:04 pm Post subject: |
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thanks _Mhz
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It was an absolute c*nt to get ridof |
do you remember how you did ? .....and were in the registry it resided ?...if so then some of our members who might have the same problem , could gain from your experience.....please feel free to post the solution
cheers
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flw Forum Fanatic
Joined: 27 May 2002 Posts: 16777215 Location: U.S.A.
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Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2003 9:16 pm Post subject: |
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Anybody try "Spybot" ?
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Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2003 9:59 pm Post subject: |
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fastlanwan wrote: |
Anybody try "Spybot" ? |
not tried it , but Spybot works from what i have just read at another forum.
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flw Forum Fanatic
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Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2003 10:13 pm Post subject: |
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It worked well when I had a problem like the one your describing.
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delete852 Just Arrived
Joined: 19 Nov 2002 Posts: 4 Location: Washington DC
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Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2003 3:00 am Post subject: |
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i cought it too a while ago
I went to the registry localmachine>software>windows>current version>run and run once, that has a list of of things that start up no matter what. So I erased the one for Xjupiter, than I ended it in EndTask, thing, and then I erased the files, and changed my settings back. That thing is like a virus, i hate that shit.
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Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2003 3:15 am Post subject: |
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thanks to all ..... lets hope someone pays them back for the grief they have caused
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Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2003 3:24 am Post subject: |
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ComSec wrote: |
thanks to all ..... lets hope someone pays them back for the grief they have caused |
You know I think I'm a psychic (or psycho) but I see a defacement being asked for here.. (no nice adming lean security stuff)
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