John R Bartow
jbartow at winhaven.net
Wed Nov 12 16:51:13 CST 2014
And, to be clear, removing the proxy highjacker applies to any browser not just chrome -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 1:50 PM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Hijacked browsers 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? >> >> -- >> Arthur >> _______________________________________________ >> dba-Tech mailing list >> dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > > -- > Gary Kjos > garykjos at gmail.com -- Gary Kjos garykjos at gmail.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com