[dba-Tech] Hijacked browsers

Jim Lawrence accessd at shaw.ca
Wed Nov 12 13:50:16 CST 2014


Hi Gary:

Excellent vid

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Kjos" <garykjos at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 6:34:22 AM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Hijacked browsers

That came from here....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmapUgg12UU

Apparently from reading the comments that the virus or whatever will
immediately reset the changes though....... You need to do malware
bytes and other scanning tools to remove that bad boy.

GK

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 8:29 AM, Gary Kjos <garykjos at gmail.com> wrote:
> 1. Run Chrome as Administrator.
> 2. Go to the settings in Chrome.
> 3. Go to Advanced Settings (its all the way down).
> 4. Scroll to Network Section and click on ''Change proxy settings''.
> 5. A window will pop up with the name ''Internet Properties''
> 6. Click on ''LAN settings''
> 7. Un-check ''Use a proxy server for your LAN''
> 8. Check ''Automatically detect settings''
> 9. Click everything ''OK'' and you are done!
>
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 6:04 AM, Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Something has happened to my laptop. When I run any browser, WaterFox or
>> Chrome or IE, I'm getting this message that says "Unable to connect to the
>> proxy server". I can only conjecture that something I downloaded has
>> hijacked my browsers and have no idea how to fix it. I even tried
>> uninstalling WaterFox and re-installing it, but that didn't work.
>>
>> The upside is that I have two computers and the secondary one is not a
>> problem, which is how I'm able to send this plea for help. Any suggestions
>> on how to fix the other one?
>>
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