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Re: gottalottamoney post# 2711

Wednesday, 07/25/2007 7:17:05 PM

Wednesday, July 25, 2007 7:17:05 PM

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Linda,

I'm not going to say it's likely, but somebody could have possibly installed a back door remote admin utility (like NetBus) and modified your hosts file. (Hosts file thing described here: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/28/google-tv-an-elaborate-prank/

My first steps would be to ensure I have proper virus scanning and adware removal utilities installed. If you don't, I recommend AVG Free edition and SpyBot (also free). You can pick these up here:
AVG: http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/
SpyBot: http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html

Once you have utilities installed, scan everything. Might take a while to do the scans. The scans will also determine if someone has installed a back door remote admin utility (at least in most cases).

Hope you get it running again...



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