Posted on 04/28/2010 9:26:38 AM PDT by ShadowAce
I'd scan your computer with a few different A/V products to check.
It's even possible that your router got hacked. Might be worth trying a connection bypassing your router to test for it.
Probably some type of “re-director” malware. Had a PC at work that had the exact problem and it was a malware/Trojan Horse infection.
That’s where I’d start anyway.
That is a good explanation for it, though.
Uhm - the “I use KDE Ctl-F2” was a clue that a “virus” was likely not his problem. He’s using Linux.
That being the case - look at your resolv.conf to make sure it’s pointing at the DNS you expect it to be pointing at. Perhaps reinstall Firefox - or better yet - use Konqueror to determine if it has similar behavior. This will tell you whether your DNS is being hi-jacked, or it’s a problem with just Firefox.
Hope these help some.
Sounds like Malware to me.
You're running Linux?
works for me — I suspect a virus on you machine. Check it now.
This is not my issue. This was a post on MozillaZine that I posted here.
This does not affect me (yet). I was merely pointing out the potential for ISPs to hijack network traffic to their own purposes.
Malware, or a virus, is a good explanation of this, though.
Textbook browser hijacker.
The obvious answer is somebody ****** with his box while he was away.
Do you get to this same page no matter what you search for? it looks like a website in and of itself...PCCW.
The last time I saw this it was just a Firefox add-on that was installed by the open source software PDFCreator.
All one has to do is remove the add-on.
Okay - but a virus or malware isn’t a good explanation because of the simple fact that it’s linux.
Linux systems can certainly be “rooted” but this is going to be through a direct attack over the net through some loop-hole like BIND being broken, or some such. Linux just doesn’t get infected by email or website problems.
If the guy is nutty enough to be running root while he is doing web browsing - maybe. But because of the admin setup within Linux... and it’s different model of security AND the fact that it isn’t a dominant environment. The likelyhood of this being the explanation is maybe 0.001%
I run linux - have for better than 15 years. I’ve had a couple of “rooted” systems. These systems were compromised by direct attack. People managed to setup an ftp site one time, and another time managed to modify my web server. They didn’t get in through “malware” but rather holes in the web-server or ftp client themselves.
You could say that the results are the same - what I’m trying to explain is that the method of attack is different than you are offering.
I stand corrected on the malware portion of the explanation. A malevolent Fire-fox add-on could be called “malware.” He had to agree to add this though. They don’t just download automatically.
I don’t believe a “virus” is likely to be the culprit.
Don’t use your ISP’s DNS servers (I use OpenDNS, www.opendns.com).
Someone installed a BHO in the White House, too. Wasn’t me.
Ees no prollem, esse.
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Would that removal of that infection were as easy.
T'would be a grand day indeed.
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