Understanding Browser Hijacking And How To Correct It

Understanding Browser Hijacking And How To Correct It

By: Otis Cooper


If you are an Internet junkie and surf nearly 24 hours a day, it may be to your benefit to understand how Web Browser hijacking works and what you can be to prevent it as well as get rid of this nagging problem should you experience it.


The web contain sites that will override your browser's homepage setting and then replace it with their own. You can correct this by opening Internet Options in Control Panel and under Home Page, click either use blank or you specify a site of your choice.


But correcting a hijacked home page is much easier than correcting a hijacked Web Browser itself.This happens when your Web Browser is taken over by software with you having little and sometimes no control over its actions.


This happens when you are hit by such browser hijacking programs as CWS or CoolWebSearch.This software appeared in 2003 and is now one of the most invasive browser hijackers.You know you have been struck when you experience the following actions in your browser.

There is a noticeable decrease in overall PC performance. User's homepages are Smartsearch or other hijacked files and attempts to remove these are blocked.
Suddenly there appears a new toolbar in your browser You are bombarded with porn ads and porn is now being bookmarked in your favorites.


Your Internet Explorer browser quickly slows to a crawl. All web searches are redirected to other sites, in nearly all cases they will be porn. You will have little and sometimes no control over your web browser.Watch the files you download.
These programs may sometime arrive via a download. If this happens, you need to pay attention to where you are on the Internet and avoid these locations. Try to avoid downloading free screensavers for example.

Free screensavers or screensaver samples are often loaded with spyware, adware, and who knows what other insidious files that lurks within. If you do perform such download do a good virus, spyware scan.
What would be the remedy to get rid of this nightmare. You would not want porn pop-ups appearing on your PC when little Mary or David is nearby.


First go to http://www.helptogo.com and click on the link for a program named Hijackthis. Having this or other hijack removal files on disk will be your first line of defense.
And try to download CoolWebShredder to see if it will remove the program. However, even this may not work. http://www.softpedia.com is where you can learn more and download this program.


If CoolWebShredder don't work, you will have to do a complete reformat of your hard drive followed by a clean installation of Windows XP.

If you're computer is working fine now, take the time to backup your critical files. If you have to perform a clean installation of Windows XP, you will lose programs you installed.
Web Hijacking is growing and fast becoming a real pain in the "you know what" and removing them are becoming more and more a big headache.


You can also go to Google and do a search for the term "web browser hijackers" and find other files you can get to be ready you should run into this annoyance. Download the file and copy it on a cdrom or floppy disk, depending on the file size. Make two copies of the file and store it a safe place should you need it.


When you visit a site, you may be watched by what is known as a Web bug. This is a tiny graphic which sends information to another computer.It will have your IP and web site address and other data about you. As you spend time on the Internet, stop and take time to learn as much as possible about these Web Bugs.This bugs may transmit your web site and email address, for example to the web bug's main computer.


But being in the know ahead of time can save you lots of downtime using the Internet.Have that backup handy, and prepare an XP Recovery Kit and place in a safe and very secure place.



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Beware of Website "TRAP"

Beware of Website "TRAP"

Nowadays, we are facing with a lot of threat like Trojans, spyware worms when surfing the Net. The people out there who claim themselves as hackers became more “creative” to exploit the technology. They are using many different ways to cause us a lot of troubles during surfing like installing spyware that can slow our computer’s performance, stealing data and etc.

Today I am going to tell you most popular Website “trap”.

1) FakeWebsite
-For your information, “fake” website is usually used to steal our private data.
-Its hard to differentiate between the real web and fake because the interface is exactly the same.
-This fake website usually sent by email(spam), telling you to update yur account information or telling you that your account encounter some problem. So in order to fix the error or update your account, they provide LINK (fake link )in the email.
-If you click the link, you will be brought to the fake website. And if you giving your address, credit card number, hp no then your Done…

2) “Bad” Websites
-These websites usually directly infect or attack your computer.
-In order for them to begin their action, modern language of browser must be installed.
They are Java, javascript, or ActiveX.

3) Popup Windows
-Popup windows that suddenly appears during surfing is the other way for spyware to enter your computer. I’m always get this popup. What about you guys? If you surf a lot, I’m sure you will find it.
-These popup usually content some messages, like “you’ve win the lottery” , “your computer has been infected by spyware and in order to get rid of it you must click the popup” , “free screensaver” and many more.
-If you click “OK”, at that time spyware automatically enter your system without being noticed.

4) Creative Version of Popup Windows
-This is the evolution of popup windows. This popup usually has nice Close Button( X ). Usually when you see this button, you will click on it to close the popup.
-You are totally wrong. When you clicked X, it will start the process of downloading some data and may be dialing some unknown services that, high charges services.
-When you received this kind of popup, what should you do ? Here’s the solution.
Close the popup with the keyboard combination “Ctrl + W”.

5) Hidden Link
-There many ways to attached Trojans or spyware in mp3 files or video files
-There are some cases that the downloaded mp3 files come with hidden link.
So, when you try to play the mp3 files using media player or winamp, your browser may be open a few windows or popup that contain ads.
-Just remember, on the Net spyware is everywhere.

I think that’s all. Hope this tips will give you some guide when facing the same problem as I state above. Tell your friend about this. Protect your privacy !...

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Wii Console Already Cracked?

Wii Console Already Cracked?
Actually there are rumors that hackers have found the fisrt loop hole in Nintendo's Wii. I still do not know whether its true or not.But as far as i know, the Nintendo said that they already provide best security to prevent Wii from being cracked.

What can we conclude...
If the rumors is true, Wii may be in danger situation because we can say that the virus is not far behind. (Hackers can insert the virus inside the console ). When it happens, hackers can do an irrepairable damage to the console.

#As we know, hackers were able to crack even Playstation and XBOX before. So, it is possible they can do it again at Wii.

What's your opinion ?

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Buying Gold Coins

Buying Gold Coins

Do you know what is Gold Coins or Bullion coins? Well, Gold and Bullion coins actually the precious metals.Its like the real money but in different form.Bullion coins have a proven ability to protect wealth and preserve one's purchasing power, and gold coins offer divisible size and are universally acceptable in a recognizable form.This makes the purchase of gold coins and the selling of gold coin convenient through reputable coin dealers

Where to Buy Gold Coins?
The solution is at Monex, America’s trusted name in precoius metals for more than 360 years. premier coin dealer because of its sizable buy-and-sell bullion and coin market.
Many Investors have purchased billions of dollars of gold, silver, platinum and palladium bullion and bullion coins from Monex because they offers competitive gold coin prices, making Monex the preferred source for the purchase of coins.

Monex offers a number of convenient ways for buying gold coins, including:-
1)Gold Vienna Philharmonics
2)Canadian Gold Maple Leafs
3)U.S. Gold American Buffalos
4)U.S. Gold American Eagles
5)South African Gold Krugerrands

The other products are like Silver coins, platinum and palladium. For more info, just visit Monex.

How to Restrict File Sharing

How to Restrict File Sharing
Right now, I am using windows XP professional as my primary operating system. Since my college got the LAN connection, we are able to share anything in our workgroup.Since i am the one downloading a lot of tv series(like Prison Break, Heroes, Smallville ), movies and anime, I have to share it after downloading because a lot people there likewatching anime and tv series.

By sharing a lot of stuff in the network, my computer become slower.It makes feel uncomfortable especially during playing game.My computer become a bit lag because too many accessing my network that time. Then I've decided to give access to my computer only to certain. So,how can I do that in windows XP.

After searching around, here's the solution, "Applying Password on Shared Folders".

Quick Tips:-
1) Go to Control Panel > Administrative tools
2) Then Computer Management
3) On the left column, you will see Local Users and Groups
4) Double click it
5) Click on users now...Right click on Guest.
6) Click on Set Password Option from menu.
7) Enter your password.
8) Click OK...done!

Now you have successfully implement password on your share folder.So, if someone want to access your share folder, he/she must know the password,if not the share folder cannot be accessed. Give the password that you've created only to certain people that you want them to access your network.

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