John R Bartow
jbartow at winhaven.net
Fri Nov 14 12:58:28 CST 2014
The video showed how to get around the locked proxy settings. I was thinking the same thing about using system restore to do it. I don't know why that would not be effective and it seems like it would be a lot easier for the end user than editing the registry. -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Heenan, Lambert Sent: Friday, November 14, 2014 7:34 AM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Hijacked browsers Ahh... I confess I did not view the video. So it sounds like the hack involves applying a policy to prevent editing the proxy settings. In that case restore points are presumably the solution. Lambert -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John R Bartow Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2014 1:35 PM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Hijacked browsers Importance: High Lambert, That's what the video was about. Some proxy hijackers can lock down the GUI screen so it can't be done any other way than what the video shows (or scripted but I think that's a tad beyond what's needed for most). -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Heenan, Lambert Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2014 12:18 PM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [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? -- Arthur _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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