nl5xsk1 0 Report post Posted November 1, 2004 Question for you all ... my family's PC is a Windows 95 system (with no firewall) and my brother-in-law was online over the weekend, and he says that when he tried to download somthing a Trojan virus warning popped up. He did all the normal actions (stopped the download, deleted the virus things, etc) and then he ran Norton anti-virus (it came up with nothing). But the home page on the PC is now an IP address for some search-page-thing and a 'do you want to install something or other?' pop-up pops-up. He can't re-set the homepage, as it defaults back to this search page each time. Plus, the page launches on it's own if the PC is on. What could be causing this? The virus scan keeps coming up with nothing, so I don't think it's a virus, but I'm not the most knowledgeable with computers. My guess is that it's a dialer, but I really don't even know what a dialer is. Any advice on what can be done to fix their PC? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
the max 0 Report post Posted November 1, 2004 http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&saf...q=define:Dialer Try HiJack This! to get rid of that homepage nonsense as well. And tell them to get behind a firewall, ASAP. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nl5xsk1 0 Report post Posted November 1, 2004 Great, thanks, Max ... I have to go by their house today after work anyways, so will see what I can do with the HiJack This. Hopefully it works, he feels like shit for screwing up my mother's computer. And, for whatever reason, my mother's dead-against getting behind a firewall. She says that she doesn't go online enough to justify spending the (minimal) money for one, and most of the free online ones don't work with Win95. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
the max 0 Report post Posted November 1, 2004 http://soho.sygate.com/download_buy.htm http://www.looknstop.com/En/download.htm Both of those are free downloads, and are supported on Win95. I'll keep looking to find one that isn't just a free trial. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nl5xsk1 0 Report post Posted November 1, 2004 Wow, thanks again, Max ... I'm keeping my fingers crossed that one of these works, I hate the idea that their PC is vulnerable. I owe you one. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
the max 0 Report post Posted November 1, 2004 http://www.voodoofiles.com/19708 http://www.voodoofiles.com/15923 http://www.voodoofiles.com/15962 http://www.voodoofiles.com/15839 A friend of mine hooked me up with the link to voodoofiles.com http://www.voodoofiles.com/type.asp?cat_id=26 that's the link to all of their firewalls, and it tells you underneath each individual link what OS it can run on. Hope it helps. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nl5xsk1 0 Report post Posted November 2, 2004 Max, thanks for your help, but it didn't seem to work. The firewall installed fine, so they're safe moving forward. But I couldn't delete the items that had the sketchy IP address that came up when I ran the HiJack This. Whatever created them is named in a way that I can't ID it, and without removing that I can't remove the IP address that's now the home page. Thanks for all your help, though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
