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| 262476 | 2004-08-17 05:11:00 | hey all, recently i opend a txt with notepad and it opens IE and comes up with this page http://aspcod.outHost.info/ i cant seem to open any documents with notepad anymore it just opens up IE and goes to that page. i have ran spybot 1.3,adaware, and avg and cwsshredder (all up-tp-date) and it has found nothing. what do i do??? |
Patrick 2003 (277) | ||
| 262477 | 2004-08-17 05:19:00 | Have you tried to open it from the File > Open menu | Rob99 (151) | ||
| 262478 | 2004-08-17 05:27:00 | no no, i just double click on the document then it goes to IE,if i click on the notepad program itself it does the same thing | Patrick 2003 (277) | ||
| 262479 | 2004-08-17 05:37:00 | Right click on a txt file and see what program opens it . Should be notepad. hth |
johnboy (217) | ||
| 262480 | 2004-08-17 05:42:00 | it even goes to Internet Exploerer when i double click on notepad.exe | Patrick 2003 (277) | ||
| 262481 | 2004-08-17 06:04:00 | Are you sure you haven't been infected by a virus of some sort.? try a online scan to see Panda Active Scan -- www.pandasoftware.com House Call -- www.trendmicro.com Also go to these sites for further info here (www.spywareinfo.com) here (www.spywareinfo.com) hths |
johnboy (217) | ||
| 262482 | 2004-08-17 08:05:00 | dont worry ppl i got it goin now, it was this lil application called notepad.exe which opened IE, i deleted it and made the .txt file open with notpad.exe and now it seems to be fine, im surprised that spybot,adaware,or avg never picked it up | Patrick 2003 (277) | ||
| 262483 | 2004-08-18 02:09:00 | So some "person" substituted a piece of nasty code for NOTEPAD. X-( Nice of them to leave the real one. But you have been attacked. Rename notpad.exe to notepad.exe. I'd be inclined to use ATTRIB to set all .exe and .com files to readonly. It might stop some sabotage of this sort. The *nix "immutable" attribute is even stronger. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 262484 | 2004-08-18 05:44:00 | > So some "person" substituted a piece of nasty code > for NOTEPAD. i dunno how that happend:D but at least i fixed it, but still suprised that spybot adaware and avg didnt pick it up |
Patrick 2003 (277) | ||
| 262485 | 2004-08-18 06:43:00 | OutHost = Browser Hijacker and whatever else might accompany it. Removal Tutorials (www.net-integration.net) Hijackthis and CWShredder are probably your best friends. Cheers Murray P |
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