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Re: IH Geek [Dave] post# 141813

Wednesday, 05/26/2010 3:33:04 PM

Wednesday, May 26, 2010 3:33:04 PM

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No, that I can't give you. I don't pay any attention to pop up ads anyway, so I don't know what the content was. It was late yesterday afternoon and i-hub was running in Internet Explorer.

I rolled the cursor over a "blue word" in a message and when the pop-up opened, I accidently clicked within it instead of hitting the 'x' in the corner.

The sneaky thing this does, is it changes your proxy settings so that you can't get on the internet to download a solution or research it. I assume the only place you can go on the internet is to their site so you can give your credit card information. It also lowers your security settings so you won't be notified of executables starting. I guess that's so that after you pay for the privilege, they can load you up with even more mal-ware.

I can give you information on how to overcome it, so you can at least get your machine running again and back on line if you are interested. I was able to accomplish that myself. I thought about using system restore to fix the registry, but I let a Microsoft engineer walk me through that with Easy Assist.

The problem is that even as of about two hours ago Norton and Windows Defender's latest definition sets don't recognize the particular infection I had as a problem, although I'm discovering that this thing is becoming quite the latest nasty on the internet. I just thought you'd like to know.



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