Questions tagged [hijack]
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Windows 10 startup suddently extremely slow (especially explorer and filesystem related stuff)
two days ago my PC started to really lose lots of its speed expecially on the startup. At first i was able to fixit just by killing the explorer right after logging in and just restarting it. I tought ...
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Extra background appears at Win 10 login... What to do?
I wonder what cause this extra background at login...
Suddenly it just came, and now it seems to be their everytime. Even after making a clean re-install of OS.
I'm worried I might be hacked or ...
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DNS Suffix Explanation
First question here. I had a problem with my Internet provider's modem, model Sagecom F@st 3890v3. The problem was that it pointed the device DNS Suffix to utopia.net
Comcast had this problem (utopia....
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wordpress website hacked; undesirable links and content added but admin panel looks fine [closed]
I have a wordpress website hosted on plesk; right now i can see undesirable content that i never added and cannot be found from the admin panel.
Some of the menu links turned into porn words and even ...
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How can I be sure that I get an authentic response of a requested IP address?
Normally you perform a login to your ISP using the given user credentials. You then get allocated an IP address and get access to their internal name servers, so that you can ask for a certain domain ...
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MacOS Chrome default search is redirected to yahoo
The behavior looks like this:
when I search "baby" with my default search engine google.
I can see browser address bar shows "https://www.google.com.hk/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=JjV5WZ--N8TU8AfqgqII#q=baby"
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DNS Hijacking: tracing the culprit, and preventing future changes
I recently discovered that my Ethernet settings IPv4 properties, in Advanced settings (thanks to Karlis), had two unwanted entries: 82.163.143.157 and 82.163.142.159 which may be related to ...
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I feel like my IP is being targeted and under "web page hijacking" attacks
I tried:
Reinstalling browsers like Chrome, I don' t use IE so forget it;
Scanning Hard disk, Operating memory and Boot sector for virus;
Dumping BIOS to a file and scan it with VirusTotal;
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MyAllSearch.com Threat Hijack? [duplicate]
It seems like Iv'e been infected with some kind of chrome hijacker which changes my homepages to myallsearch.com.
I removed the file from the system with SpyHunter, but after logging in again into ...
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Computer won't recognize Chrome as default browser after cleaned browers-hijack
I recently had suspicions that my Chrome was hi-jacked and found out it had been. It was now something called "gunship", which I only managed to find ONE similar case of.
I deleted Gunship and ...
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How to check if my ISP is changing in any way a request to Google's DNS?
The problem is that superuser.com, stackexchange.com and many other sites didn't work.
When I was debugging the problem, I tried nslookup:
user@host:~$ nslookup superuser.com 8.8.8.8
Server: 8.8....
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Trying to ssh into one server from two different networks results in two different RSA fingerprints
An attempt to connect to the remote server effingham.dreamhost.com via ssh from my company's network resulted in ssh giving an error about an RSA fingerprint mismatch, so I investigated and found that ...
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namebench says hosts are being hijacked by my DNS - is this for real?
I've been experiencing strange and annoying latency issues with my connection, despite the bandwidth seeming ok - especially latency with name resolution. So, I just ran Google namebench. So, it gave ...
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Google Search hijacked only when not being observed. Attaching a debugger returns normal results
I cannot figure this one out. I noticed my search results were a little "different" as of late.
I'm not signed in when I do a google search, but if I click "Images" or "Videos" I am shown as ...
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Can't get rid of browser searchengine hijack
I have a very sticky search engine (searchinterneat-a.akamaihd.net) hijack in my Firefox browser. My BF already:
removed the program,
removed all traces in the registry,
removed addons,
restored ...
