HELP - Im getting Spyed – is anyone else getting redirects like this?

[socalsurf]

The few people i have talked to think that i have some sort of spyware. When i type in msn.com or cnn.com i get redirected to www.yeah.com ?????

Somtimes google and yahoo are just down and i get dns errors while the rest of the net is fine ????

here is another post on this same subject -- http://216.239.53.104/search?q=cache...hl=en&ie=UTF-8

This is a new one so it looks like most fo the spyware software would not be updated to handle this

Do you have any ideas ? I really really would appreciate them!

[HeadBand]

have you atleast ran updates spybot and adaware yet...if they don't catch it an update will one of these days i bet

[Blazer06]

try the latest update of ad aware, as headband said.
i know someone who had that problem and that fixed it.


Blaze

[alex818]

This is not a hijack or spyware. I will tell you how to fix this. The problem is that yeah.com and your.com is owned by a company called Digimedia in OK. They also own a domain called "com.org" ... the problem is.. when you type in a url in your browser and if it takes a little too long to respond, your browser will try other extensions. For example if yahoo.com dont work it tries yahoo.com.com or yahoo.com.org.... when it tries "yahoo.com.org" you get directed to "com.org" which then directs you to "yeah.com"

Here is how to fix it:

From Internet Explorer, go to "tools" then "internet options" then "advanced" tab, then scroll down to where it says "search from address bar" it looks like a magnefying glass... Click on "do not search from address bar". then click OK then reboot. Thats it!

If you get a page cannot be displayed after you do this, that means you just cant connect to the site you are trying for some reason... either DNS issue or Routing. But now you can see that your browser is no longer redirecting.

[HeddaLora]

Besides spyware, there are also a couple of trojans around which do this. I would recommend getting AdAware, updating the definitions and running a full scan, and then updating your virus definitions & running a full virus scan.