[dba-Tech] WTF? It was fine this morning

Glad you got it fixed.

Browsers are designed pretty rugged these days and it is very hard to actually hack the application so hijackers have to rely on re-direction and obscurity to gain control. These hacks are usually fairly rudimentary; shortcuts, options list hacks and plugin hacks.

Jim  

----- Original Message -----
From: "Arthur Fuller" <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 3:36:44 AM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] WTF? It was fine this morning

Thanks, Jim. For the benefit of those who have suffered similar problems,
one hijack method that I have discovered is that the hijacker modifies any
shortcuts and adds an argument that effectively redirects the browser to a
new site. So the take-away is, if your browser goes wonky, first thing to
check is the shortcut, whether it's on your desktop or QuickLaunch bar.

Arthur

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

> The problems should be easy to resolve as all the things that can be
> hacked are easily fixed...at least I found it so...check the add-ons list
> and preference/options list as there is usually so anomaly that shows
> up...you can also reset your browser to original. On a Windows box, check
> the add and remove programs section.
>
> Jim
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