[dba-Tech] Hijacked browsers

Have you tried manually changing your Internet connection settings? From IE (Tools Menu) or Control Panel select Internet Options, then the Connections tab and click the LAN Settings button.  Normally you never need a proxy server, so if you see one set up delete the info and clear the 'Use a proxy server' check box.

Might be quicker that uninstalling everything, but I'd still do a Malware scan.

Lambert

Prediction is difficult, especially of the future.
  -- Niels Bohr



-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 7:04 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: [dba-Tech] Hijacked browsers

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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Arthur
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