On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 04:20:59PM -0700, Tim Langdell, PhD exclaimed:
Has anyone heard of "bigred.com"? A client has suddenly discovered that all of its browser queries that do not resolve (www.rubbishcharacters.com for e.g.) get diverted to the BigRed search engine web site. No one in the company is aware of having installed anything that could have intentionally have caused this effect for DNS failures. Anyone got any ideas what is going on here? Is it a known problem? Viral or otherwise?
One of my friends had the same problem on her PC at home. Found out that she had installed some 'browser enhancement' software that made a considerable number of well-hidden registry entries changing everything from her default home page to her search engine results to ads displayed in the browser's title bar (MSIE 5). Took quite a bit of digging about with regedit.exe to get rid of the bugger.
T.L.
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