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Published on February 16, 2012 By Uvah In Personal Computing

     Yesterday it was an issue with Windows update. I thought it was solved. It started out with two of my browsers not loading correctly. Today however its something more serious. IE, Chrome and FF are all being redirected to the Comcast billing site. No matter what link I click on or site in my speed dial they all go to Comcast. I believe it started when I opened yahoo. There was an ad on the page for comcast that didn't fully load. When I clicked on mail it started. I ran all of my utilities thinking I caught a bug but neither of them found anything. I opened MalwareBytes to run that one and as usual it needed to update its virus definitions, no problem as I've done that many times before. This time though an error message came up saying that there are files missing or corrupt. So In uninstalled MalwareBytes hoping to go for a fresh install. No go.

     I used the system restore and took my laptop back to the 13th. thinking whatever is on it would be gone. Nope! Its still there and when I tried to open Windows update another error message saying it cannot access any updates. Windows update is not working, browsers are being redirected, uninstalling FF and rolling back to a previous version didn't work. Right now I can't use my laptop at all on the net. Is anyone else having this issue with browsers being redirected or is it a bug on my system. The only thing I can think of to do is use my rescue disk and pray it works. 


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on Feb 16, 2012

Well ... it kinda goes likethis ... I did a clean install with the Win7 Professional disk. Everything went smoothly then I discovered my screen resolution was set at 800x600. My normal resolution is 1600x900. I triede to adjust it and the best I can get is 1024x768 ... not acceptaqble as everything thing looks funky. Another thing .... this Win7 was originall y madefor a desktop. Does putting it on a laptop going to make a difference? It shouldn't. Its also missing a bunch of drivers. They're not installed on this OS.

on Feb 16, 2012

Well ... it kinda goes likethis ... I did a clean install with the Win7 Professional disk. Everything went smoothly then I discovered my screen resolution was set at 800x600. My normal resolution is 1600x900. I triede to adjust it and the best I can get is 1024x768 ... not acceptaqble as everything thing looks funky. Another thing .... this Win7 was originall y madefor a desktop. Does putting it on a laptop going to make a difference? It shouldn't. Its also missing a bunch of drivers. They're not installed on this OS.

 

The reason for the resolution change is because your notebook is using a default video card driver.  Go to the manufacturers website and get the appropriate video card driver for your notebook.

 

 

EDIT:

Also as a little aside.  This isn't the first time I've mentioned it but Hitman PRO (from www.surfright.nl) is a fantastic little fast cloud-based scan that checks your brower installation for DNS hijacks and/or proxy re-directs and fixes them quite nicely.  Just for future reference.

on Feb 16, 2012

this Win7 was originall y madefor a desktop. Does putting it on a laptop going to make a difference? It shouldn't. Its also missing a bunch of drivers. They're not installed on this OS.
DrJBHL
Thoumsin we already know which virus... look at the screen shot.

If have look at the screen shot... the java class who use the vulnerability is the "tool" who allow remote execution of code... if it was "used", there is some code elsewhere who was excecuted... code who can be the real virus...

In some way, the java class and his vulnerability is like a backdoor... screenshot show that the backdoor was found but give no information if somebody/something have use it for go inside the system... it is possible that nobody have use it or that hundred of trojan/virus/malware have use it...

By the way, the java backdoor ( CVE-2010-0840 ) work from Java 5.0 update 23 ( java 5.0 end of life is 8 april 2008, end of support 3 nov 2009 ) to Java 6.0 Upadate 18 ( 13/01/2010 )... update 19 from 30/03/2010 is good... The last Java 6 update, the 30th, is from 12/12/2011... Java 7 have begin the 07/07/2011... last Java 7 update, the 3th is from 14/02/2011... Point is that the backdoor is on slot if java was updated after 30/03/2010... same if the class is downloaded from some malicious site, the class cannot use the exploit anymore and excecute remote code...

In short, the screenshot show a tool, and it is not possible to know if the tool was use or not for excecute a remote code... if some malicious code was excecuted, there is something somewhere else in his system...

this Win7 was originall y madefor a desktop. Does putting it on a laptop going to make a difference? It shouldn't. Its also missing a bunch of drivers. They're not installed on this OS.

Is it a full version of Win7 ( box with original cd/dvd ) or a OEM version who was pre-installed on the computer where you have make the "rescue" Win7 disc yourself ?

If it is the OEM, it is very possible that it lead to problem... by example, i have recently install a HP computer, make the rescue disk but it resinstall correctly only on the HP computer... asking Microsoft, they have reply me : "oem version cannot be transfered to a new PC, it lives & dies on the 1st PC it is installed on"...

on Feb 16, 2012

 

 

^^^

Correct on both counts! 

on Feb 16, 2012

Uvah you said the disc you used was from a desktop computer. You also said you had a rescue disc. If this was the rescue disc you were talking about you are lucky it works at all. As Thoumsin said any rescue disc (oem) that comes with a new computer is find for that computer only to do re-formats. A rescue disc doesn't know if it's a desktop or laptop only knows which computer it belongs to.

on Feb 16, 2012

This is not a rescue disk and the OS is not OEM. It was bought separately. Its the same one I installed on the laptop that was stolen. At any rate its a driver issue. All I need do is download the correct drivers and I should be good to go. Ironic now that I think about it. I was toying with the idea of installing the pro version on the Toshiba. Maybe this is Kismet. I downloaded an app I found with Google. It'll tell me which drivers I need though asking 'it' to go for them costs money. All I need it to do is tell me which ones. I'd lke to get my hands on the dude who sent this gremlin out there. I'd have fun introducing him/her/it to a whole new meaning to the word pain.

on Feb 16, 2012

I'd lke to get my hands on the dude who sent this gremlin out there. I'd have fun introducing him/her/it to a whole new meaning to the word pain.

The goverment only gets about .001% of the bad people so good luck finding them.

on Feb 16, 2012

I downloaded an app I found with Google. It'll tell me which drivers I need though asking 'it' to go for them costs money.

Christ...enough already!!

 

Stop downloading and installing shit.

 

Windows 7 will install all the drivers you need....run the fuckin' update.................

on Feb 16, 2012

 I did that and it tells me it can't find any besides I didn't install it yet. One of the drivers I need is for the network adapter. Once I get that and I'm able to get online I can do it all on theToshiba. Right now I'm using the acer.

on Feb 16, 2012

...At any rate its a driver issue. All I need do is download the correct drivers and I should be good to go...

... I downloaded an app I found with Google. It'll tell me which drivers I need ...

Well, you need all drivers found the "download" webpage for your laptop... not some mystic application found via Google...

Since, you have speak about Acer and Toshiba, use the following link :

- http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/support/jsp/home.jsp?nav=Download

- http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/downloads.html

As for the graphic card, always use the last version found on the website of the brand ( nvidia, ATI, Intel, etc )... they are usually more up-to-date that on the site from the brand who have build the laptop...

on Feb 16, 2012

I did that and it tells me it can't find any besides I didn't install it yet. One of the drivers I need is for the network adapter. Once I get that and I'm able to get online I can do it all on theToshiba. Right now I'm using the acer.

That makes absolutely no sense....

What have you done so far to what? Keep it simple....like is Win 7 installed on the Toshiba (or whatever machine it's going on)?

on Feb 17, 2012

Win7 is installed on the Toshiba. I thought all the most common drivers came with the OS.

on Feb 17, 2012

Win7 is installed on the Toshiba. I thought all the most common drivers came with the OS.

The OS comes with enough to get you up and running. You still need to to go to Toshiba Support, enter in your model number and download the original drivers specific to that laptop. Also get any updates listed.

on Feb 17, 2012

Thanks Wiz ....... and yrag too. Going to see if I can get them now.

on Feb 17, 2012

Uvah....whatever you do you MUST follow yrag's advice.

Failure to do so will see you being ridiculed relentlessly and called all sorts of horrible names.

I know.

I have been there....[sob] ....

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