think im hijacked

Post by **Gadjett** » Mon Dec 01, 2008 7:30 pm

Hey I use yahoo email and surf alot on yahoo... but when I go to access my mail or try to access my fantasy football stuff I get hit with a domain error message saying it cant find it. I think its some kind of hijacking virus but not sure. anyone else have issue with yahoo or just me?

Alsmack · Post by **Alsmack** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 12:08 am

Have you checked your HOST file?

Usually located at:

c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\HOSTS

Open it in notepad, make sure it only has

Code: Select all

127.0.0.1  localhost

in it.

Some spyware is just stupid and changes that on people and would add like some random ip for yahoo and google and such.

Post by **Gadjett** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 12:22 am

yeah I had to dig out some of my old programs and it was a mailware program hiding in the background... Got rid of it and works fine now

Post by **Timothian** » Wed Dec 03, 2008 6:46 pm

I use ad-aware. the free version and scan my pc once in a while. Good freebie program that does not load a bunch of junk on your machine and it does not run in the background. The profile is kept up to date and catches most of the adware, hijackers etc. It won't detect worms, many viruses.

It also will spit out a list of cookies, you probably want to delete most of the cookies it lists, but some you may want to keep for sites you frequent.

http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php