Apparently yesterday when my mother turned her computer on and loaded MSN Explorer, the homepage had been changed. It had been changed to a page that said something about your computer has been hacked click here to fix it...and apparently it had some icky porn on the page too. I gave the lecture to her that 1)She should have written the location/website that the home page was redirected to. and 2) She should have just turned the computer off and used mine until I got home.
Anyway, I'm not entirely sure what happened with the whole homepage, but it wasn't until this morning that I wa told that this had happened...and I was only told because not when you turn the computer off, select shut down. It goes all the way to the screen that says "Windows is Shutting Down" and it just hangs there.
I've run Spy Bot S&D, its got nothing. Did a virus scan (AVG Free). Nothing.I have the hijackthis log attached.
I'm not sure what the problem is and do you guys thing the system is still compromised? Why isn't Windows shutting down?
I'm half tempted to take this opportunity and force my mother to use Ubuntu now. She wouldn't have this problem of possibly being cracked in Ubuntu...at least not yet.
Anyway Thanks guys.
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Now it shuts down, I didn't change anything. But MSN Explorer, which is just IE6 in a new GUI, crashes and IE6 is incredibly sluggish.
Anyway, I'm not entirely sure what happened with the whole homepage, but it wasn't until this morning that I wa told that this had happened...and I was only told because not when you turn the computer off, select shut down. It goes all the way to the screen that says "Windows is Shutting Down" and it just hangs there.
I've run Spy Bot S&D, its got nothing. Did a virus scan (AVG Free). Nothing.I have the hijackthis log attached.
I'm not sure what the problem is and do you guys thing the system is still compromised? Why isn't Windows shutting down?
I'm half tempted to take this opportunity and force my mother to use Ubuntu now. She wouldn't have this problem of possibly being cracked in Ubuntu...at least not yet.
Anyway Thanks guys.
edit:
Now it shuts down, I didn't change anything. But MSN Explorer, which is just IE6 in a new GUI, crashes and IE6 is incredibly sluggish.
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