I was highjacked by coolsearch.biz and lived to tell about it

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  • lazzlo
    Confirmed User
    • Sep 2003
    • 3709

    #1

    I was highjacked by coolsearch.biz and lived to tell about it

    Man that was stressful. One second I was looking at a damn tgp submit page, which I forget which site it was, then I closed it, and all hell broke lose.
    Then my comp was unusable, whatever I typed, anywhere, I got re-directed and pop up hell. I actually had to get someone ICQ me the first of three programs to get rid of it! I couldnt do anything
    I first ran Spybots S&E, it found some of it, then I was actually able to download CWS Shredder, that again found more of it, but my homepage was still jacked and I still got re-directs.
    The finishing move was installing Ad-aware. That ran nice. I did a reboot and my homepage is normal again! I just did a search in google for "sex" and I got no popups or redirects!
    I was very stressed because about a year ago I got jacked and ran some spyware removal and it screwed my comp so bad removing it I could not even restart it.
    I am ok now I think. Thanks Spyware, Lavasoft and Soeperman.
    And a huge gigantic to coolsearch.
  • Theo
    HAL 9000
    • May 2001
    • 34515

    #2
    coolsearch is cool!

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    • Mr. Marks
      Confirmed User
      • Jun 2001
      • 7517

      #3
      Originally posted by Soul_Rebel
      coolsearch is cool!
      Unless it straight up Jacks ya, Compton style!

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      • lazzlo
        Confirmed User
        • Sep 2003
        • 3709

        #4
        Originally posted by papichulo
        Unless it straight up Jacks ya, Compton style!
        I was fully jacked, I would rather have been carjacked in Compton, less stressful.

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        • Mr. Marks
          Confirmed User
          • Jun 2001
          • 7517

          #5
          Another thing that is fucked about spyware is that it may screw up your com port and truly jack your shit.

          Scumbags who do Active X and exploits should be hung by the nutz.

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