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OT: Problem with blatant spyware while visiting this forum again (Sun Dec 21 05:50:13 2003 )
fed up [View profile ]
http://www.netrn.net/spywareblog/

Did someone else receive a popup window while 
visiting here that rewrote their homepage?

Before Yann talks about how it's not his fault, 
I am not the least bit interested in that.  I 
don't care if it's because the site is run 
through someone else's server or backbone that 
likes to install spyware on people.  I'm only 
interested in killing the problem permanently.

Once in a while (starting today), I open up this 
forum's URL and up pops up a javascript window 
which runs an ad for SpyWiper software.  It 
doesn't happen every time, but refresh the forum 
enough times and it shows up.

It doesn't even matter if you I click on the 
link inside the javascript window (which is 
coded such that you cannot find out the IP or 
URL address it's operating from).  By 
automatically opening, the javascript window 
immediately rewrites my homepage to:

default-homepage-network.com

Now I've encountered this attack before and I 
took all the steps found in several spyware 
forums to perform the necessary fixes.  I also 
disabled the URL's that this spyware company has 
been operating under.  However, I cannot track 
down what IP/URL this javascript window is 
located in.

What that all means is that every time this 
stupid window pops up, my homepage gets hijacked 
again and I have to do all the spyware clean-ups 
once again.  Every time I kill it, having that 
stupid window spring up on me starts the trouble 
all over again.

I just visited some spyware forums because of 
this and found out that the company involved 
(Mail Wiper Inc. from Georgia) recently obtained 
new IP addresses.  I've disabled whatever 
addresses I've found so far, but that hasn't 
prevented this window from showing up and 
causing me grief again.

I'm about ready to drop using IE permanently but 
since this particular problem ONLY occurs when I 
visit the Animanga forum (I've had several 
windows open to other sites and those were 
unaffected, so I'm pretty sure), I would like to 
hear about alternate solutions.  Disabling 
javascript on Animanga permanently would prevent 
me from ever posting but perhaps that may be 
something I have to consider.

Suggestions and recommendations welcome.  BTW, I 
input all grief-causing URL's and IP's into my 
maximum security zone on IE plus I run 
HijackThis, Spybot, and Norton Internet Security



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