Every time I type in a website and hit enter, I get redirected to some stupid website called punksonbikes.com. I dont understand how this happened; before today everything was fine. And it only seems to affect Internet Explorer; I can still use Firefox just fine. Can someone please help me?
2007-03-06 11:00:24 · 5 answers · asked by K R 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
Go into your Internet Options and reset the defaults. Restart your browser and check to see if it works. If the problem still persists, run your anti-virus and anti-spyware programs. This sounds like it might be a possible browser hijack attempt. If you don't have any anti-spyware programs, Ad-Aware SE Plus is a great program that'll target hijack attempts often.
2007-03-06 11:05:53 · answer #1 · answered by Big Q 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah, IE has been hijacked, hence why you should NEVER even use it.
get the following, all are free for a safe surfing experience,
install in SAFE mode with networking ( hit F-8 at boot time ), run them all in SAFE mode
with networking as you'll need it for the updates all the programs below will need.
Turn off RESTORE and the RECYLE BIN temporarily as virii can regenerate / reinfect even if you delete
them with both services on. After all the scanning and cleaning after a 2nd reboot and one last
scan do you turn both of them back on.
ANTI VIRAL
AVG (free) http://free.grisoft.com/
FIREWALL
ZoneAlarm http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/znalm/freeDownload.jsp
WEB BROWSER - http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox
EMAIL use thunderbird. It has a good built in spam filter and learns when you teach it. http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird
SPYWARE
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
and if you have a wireless router follow these tips,
1. Use WPA encryption (WPA-PSK) it's less crackable then WEP.
2. Make a passphrase that is upper & lower case and has some numbers thrown in there as well, again harder to crack.
some like mAkE1t5eCurE0rel53 and as long as possible.
3. Use MAC access control so only you or authorized PC's can connect (even if you do have encryption turned on)
4. Turn off DHCP use static addresses.
5. Turn off SSID (and change it) unless your card really needs it (some do)
6. Change username/password of access unit front end
7. Ensure you have the usual firewall enabled on your PC.
8. Paranoia rules, turn WLAN off if your not using it :)
one last tip
control panel---administrator tools--services--messenger
right clik on it
stop the service
then disable it
save changes
2007-03-06 19:03:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You got spyware. Install Adaware from Lavasoft. That should get rid of it. And just switch to Firefox for good.
2007-03-06 19:04:01 · answer #3 · answered by trutan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you have what is called a highjacker its a virus get some spyware removal tool to help it i use stopzilla
http://www.stopzilla.com/download/download_select.aspx?AID=10003&S=66&type=DOWNLOAD&topic=&source=&AAID=&cid=stopzilla
STOPzilla: Award-winning Spyware Remover, Pop-up Blocker, Adware Remover.
2007-03-06 19:05:42 · answer #4 · answered by Jimmy H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If your using IE7, I would uninstall and go back to using IE6.
2007-03-06 19:08:02 · answer #5 · answered by Linds 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋