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How to find detected "hijacker" source Harris 03-20-2008
Posted by Harris on March 21, 2008, 7:58 pm
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Subject: Re: How to find detected "hijacker" source


> Harris wrote:
> do, in addition to StopZilla, run (up-to-date) AVG 7.5 "Professional
>> edition" anti-virus.
>>
>> It has not detected these "hijacker" attacks that StopZilla has been
>> complaining about. (Could StopZilla be complaining about AVG updates??)
>>
>> My main reason for StopZilla is to put a lid on pop-ups.
>> So, I am wondering if the "highjacker" detections by StopZilla are valid.
>
> I already told you what I think you should do. Scan with more/better tools
> than StopZilla and AVG. If you don't want to do that, then the only way to
> get an answer to your question is to contact StopZilla and ask them if
> you're getting false positives.
>
> Good luck and EOT for me.
>
> Malke
> --
> MS-MVP
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> Don't Panic

I'm not ignoring your advice, Malke. Still munching on the 19 pages of
suggestion, but will let you know what I find out. Thanks for taking the
time to tell me.

Harris

p.s.

I thought AVG was supposed to be good.
For sure, Norton never impressed me.



Posted by Volodymyr M. Shcherbyna on March 25, 2008, 3:42 pm
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Why don't you just download a trial version of Eset Nod32 Antivirus and try
it for 30 days?

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> ----- Original Message -----
> Newsgroups: microsoft.public.security.virus
> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 4:24 PM
> Subject: Re: How to find detected "hijacker" source
>
>
>> Harris wrote:
>> do, in addition to StopZilla, run (up-to-date) AVG 7.5 "Professional
>>> edition" anti-virus.
>>>
>>> It has not detected these "hijacker" attacks that StopZilla has been
>>> complaining about. (Could StopZilla be complaining about AVG updates??)
>>>
>>> My main reason for StopZilla is to put a lid on pop-ups.
>>> So, I am wondering if the "highjacker" detections by StopZilla are
>>> valid.
>>
>> I already told you what I think you should do. Scan with more/better
>> tools
>> than StopZilla and AVG. If you don't want to do that, then the only way
>> to
>> get an answer to your question is to contact StopZilla and ask them if
>> you're getting false positives.
>>
>> Good luck and EOT for me.
>>
>> Malke
>> --
>> MS-MVP
>> Elephant Boy Computers
>> www.elephantboycomputers.com
>> Don't Panic
>
> I'm not ignoring your advice, Malke. Still munching on the 19 pages of
> suggestion, but will let you know what I find out. Thanks for taking the
> time to tell me.
>
> Harris
>
> p.s.
>
> I thought AVG was supposed to be good.
> For sure, Norton never impressed me.
>
>



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