something wrong with my browser

adrian8311 · Post by **adrian8311** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 6:28 am

Hi,
I've encountered a serious problem, I doubt there's spyware/parasites inside my computer. I don't know why whenever I typed in a web site in the browser, like [url]http://www.hotmail.com,[/url] I will be redirected to the http://www.magicsearch.ws/Refinance.html web site, and I have to type "www.hotmail.com" again in the search bar of the magicsearch website. Does anyone know why? And how I can solve this problem? Thx.

Adrian

qball15j · Post by **qball15j** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 8:22 am

Sounds like your browser was hijacked. Try running Spybot and Ad-Aware, also check your hosts file. If there's anything in your hosts file besides "localhost 127.0.0.1" delete it.

Also, edit your post above, you have a "," at the end of the hotmail link.

stevejrc · Post by **stevejrc** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 8:38 am

yeah, I did a quick search in Google and it came up with loads of people saying magicsearch hijacked them, theres details on how to remove it.