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Or should I serioulsy start working on finding out whether Hijack this found anything suspect? Everyone warned that I should be careful about proceeding with Hijack This.

Wondering....

I've done numerous virus and spyware checks. Nothing is showing up. So I assume that my personal files are free of infection.

So, how about I do a System Restore to a date...

Nihil

I've allowed and disallowed PCME. No difference.

The situation is that my problem has recurred (before I tried allowing or disallowing PCME). So once again altavista is out of reach.
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Thanks SodaPop
Will do.

OK

UNBELEIVABLEY, I just manged to surf BOTH AltaVista and Hotmail (which as I said degenerated this morning).

The only thing that I did different was that just as I fired up Mozilla, Norton...

HELP
I am being eaten ALIVE! Now, its progressed from altavista.com to my second heartline hotmail! Don't know for how mcuh longer I will be able to access AntiOnline - I am getting desperate.
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Hey all
I've tried everything. No go.
I notice that when I set Norton to alert me if an unknown program is trying to launch using another program I get a whole ton of repeated alerts. I have no...

Also
The IT desk at school suggested that I get altavista from this site.

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,23435,00.asp

I am also going to try that

Cgkanchi

Remember I am not just a newbie but totally clueless as well!

To enter this command you suggested at the C propmt do I jsut enter it as the computer is booting up and I see the c...

Hey Tim_Axe

I started with Internet Explorer but when I first started having trouble I downloaded Netscape (YUKK!) and Mozilla :thumbsup: which is what I now use. None of these Browser can access...

Tim_axe
Thanx for the info on pinging.

Yeah, as I said at the start of this thread, I really have this gut feeling this thing is related to AltaVista traversal.

I've gone into Norton...

Hey Cgkanchi

Thanx! I've 'pinged'.
The result was this and I guess it means that my ping was not successful.

Pinging avatw.search.yahoo2.akadns.net [216.155.220.155] with 32 bytes of data:...

OK Folks

I've downloaded and run the following to no avail. They found nothing expect Spybot keeps finding the 5 DSO Exploit thingies which I've read are no issue.
Adaware
Spybot
Swatit...

Jeez Guys and Gals I am such a novice I did not even realize there was a second page counselling me against HijackThis. Anyhow, no harm done. All I did was run it. I have not changed a thing. ...

Hi Moissonite
(and anyone else who knows what they are doing)

I've taken you advice; downloaded and ran HijackThis.

I'm posting my log file because though I've perused it, I cannot see...

Hi Nihil

Thanks for the link to UK AltaVista. But that was a no-go too.
Over the last few days I have tried every existing link I can find to altavista but have not been able to get there. I've...

Nope
Even even when I manually enter the URL it doesn't work. Is that what you mean by Ping?

Sorry, I truncated the solution site

http://doc.altavista.com/business_solutions/search_products/free_downloads/search_intranet.shtml

Hey Nihil & Akshayakrsh & everyone else who can help

I don't know if this clarifies what you were asking about, but Yes, live in the USA and I am trying to access http://www.altavista.com

No...

I can't access any AltaVista site. It's my preferred Search Engine. I've been running Norton and strangely do not recall being warned about getting attacked. What's my solution? I read that...