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After four hours, almost everything is back to normal.

I just have to track down what's hijacking my browser, and I'll be done.

At the moment it's being sent to your-home-page.net

Don't go there. I just thought that someone might recognize it.

At the moment I have it blocked off in the HOSTS file, so it's just annoying.

On top of that, I have other browsers that aren't affected. Just the one that I was using at the time of infestation.



What did people do in the old days for entertainment

Surprising your anti virus didn't protect you on that one!

OldAirmail wrote:
What did people do in the old days for entertainment

A lot of breeding going on, before the invention of the Television Set.

...I just watch the 'Tele now... ...!

Much cheaper, and less stressful...

Paul.... ...!

Something like this happened about eight years ago.

This time it slipped past Microsoft Security Essentials, and got caught by Malwarebytes Anti-Malware.

Or so I thought.


What happens is a website gets taken over. When you visit it, BAM!

Normally, I get a warning about the site, as I did this time.


At any rate, when I started scanning to be sure that nothing had gotten by, the number of infected files started shooting past 100.

It was either one virus opening the way for many others, or a shotgun effect of many viruses trying to overload the anti-virus system.

Ultimately, there were about 160 files infected. Fortunately nothing critical, or un-repairable.



It's in the nature of the these virus programmers to make every attempt to bypass the latest anti-virus programs.

When I become King of the World every one of them will be castrated.

With a fork & butter knife.



PS - I don't know if this'll help anyone else, but once you think that you have the problem licked, go to one of the major anti-virus companies.

Almost all of them will let you do an online virus scan.

If you're REALLY paranoid, use two companies.


PSS - I've started to get interested in amphibious aircraft. Particularly the de Havilland DHC-2 & DHC-6.

The cockpit panel would be relatively simple to make into a ............BAM!

Don't ask me where the site was, I'd been looking at one site after another for an hour or more. Just following links.

So it's definitive. It's a Canadian virus!