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Rod Taylor
July 12th 04, 01:37 PM
Can anybody please help. Each time that I am surfing the
net I get rudely disturbed by an xxxserver!. It
disconnects my connection with Tiscali and automatically
connects to this adult server. I have tried removing it
many times in "Dial-up newtorking" but it always returns.
Please help my happy surfing is turning sad!

Mike M
July 12th 04, 02:36 PM
Your system appears to have been hijacked.

When did you last check your system for malware using your preferred antivirus
application making sure first that you are using an updated current set of
viral reference signatures?

This would be a good time to download yourself a copy of the free Ad-Aware 6.0
from Lavasoft (http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/) and also SpyBot
Search & Destroy (http://www.safer-networking.org/) and use them to check your
system for other commercial parasites remembering that they are only as good
as when you last updated their reference files. I also use a program called
BHODemon (http://www.definitivesolutions.com/bhodemon.htm that checks for
unwanted Browser Help Objects and SpywareBlaster
(http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareblaster.html) which can help prevent
some parasites getting a grip on your PC.

Then there is CWShredder
(http://www.zerosrealm.com/downloads/CWShredder.zip or
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/cwshredder.zip) which is the best way
of getting rid of the many forms of the CoolWebSearch hijacker details of
which can be found at http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html
and also http://www.pestpatrol.com/pestinfo/c/cws.asp..

Finally if you still continue to experience problems download a copy of
HijackThis from (http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html). Create a
folder called hijackthis on C: and copy the file you downloaded to that
folder. Close as many applications as you can including all instances of
Internet Explorer and then run hijackthis.exe and post back the log, provided
that it isn't too long, to this thread, otherwise to the HijackThis Forum at
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/ or alternatively
http://forum.aumha.org/viewforum.php?f=30 and hopefully this will enable
someone to identify the cause of your problem.
--?
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



Rod Taylor > wrote:

> Can anybody please help. Each time that I am surfing the
> net I get rudely disturbed by an xxxserver!. It
> disconnects my connection with Tiscali and automatically
> connects to this adult server. I have tried removing it
> many times in "Dial-up newtorking" but it always returns.
> Please help my happy surfing is turning sad!