Re: !! Internet Explorer !!

[Brian Toovey <btoovey () igxglobal com>]

This has been addressed already in the list.  You could be infected with
anything at this point, and should run some kind of spyware removal
tool.  Please review the list archive for this week.

On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 10:35, Farrukh Hussain wrote:

> Hey,
>        Yesterday i was visitng web sites. so i felt my computer slow. and that time i shutdown my computer and go 
> somewhere. now today i restarted my computer and when i open internet explorer i got Web Page. Which i didn't SET. 
> and now i am not able to write www.anydomain.com . when i type it gave me error. and it is also opening Popup window 
> advertise. and it has 2 files in my windows directory. when i removed them it comes back again. So please tell me,
> 1) what  is  it? 
> 2) how i can delete/remove it ?
> 3) how i got this thing ?
> 4) how to secure from this thing ?
>
> here is the 1 page from many pages in internet explorer.
> http://www.farukh.com/1.GIF
>
>
> Best Regards from,
> Farrukh Hussain.
>
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