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RE: Sniper Home Page Attack

To: "Larry Steckel" <lorenzoscribe@hotmail.com>, <autox@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: Sniper Home Page Attack
From: "Dan Spalding" <dans@microsoft.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 20:14:27 -0800
Larry,
 
I would try out AdAware to root out any spyware programs installed, and then 
ensure your settings don't allow downloading/installing w/o your permission.  
Even then, I would say no to all programs from web pages I don't know.
 
Dan
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From:    Larry Steckel [mailto:lorenzoscribe@hotmail.com]       
Sent:    Fri 11/22/02 16:23     
To:      autox@autox.team.net   
Cc:      wmatenkosky@hotmail.com        
Subject:         Sniper Home Page Attack        
        

Hey Guys,

Yesterday, while I was surfing a few favorite web pages something downloaded
into my computer. When I went back to my ISP's Home Page, I found that it
had been replaced by something called www.SearchAccurate.com.

I have erased it from the home page preference and replaced it with my ISP's
address, I  have erased the history and the cookies, and searched through
the program files looking for the files from this thing to erase them, but I
can't find them.

Worse, even when I put my ISP's page back up, one trip to a web site and the
SearchAccurate page is there when I return to Home.

Has anyone else been zinged by these scum? And probably most importantly,
where do I go to root out the files?

Larry Steckel

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