"John Pierce" <jpierce_golden@csi.com> wrote in
news:bdesld$ngl$1@ngspool-d02.news.aol.com:

> Has anybody run across a spyware that won't allow you to open
> certain
> sites, and redirects? Friend of mine was telling me that he could not
> get to yahoo.com. I visited his house and realized that he had been
> hi-jacked. But instead of just resetting his home page, this bug
> seemed to redirect some of his URLs. When he wanted to go to yahoo he
> was being redirected to a site that looked like an official "Can not
> find server...." but it also had links to search, shop, and play
> games. Dummy me I didn't try to figure out the URL he was being sent
> to I just downloaded and ran the latest version of ad ware and it
> recognized 208 pieces of junk, which I removed. Now instead of getting
> redirected it just won't allow him to open certain sites like
> Microsoft, and Yahoo, he now gets the "server down, try home page /
> refresh" error. I am going to have him reset his browser settings and
> see what that does. I tried to get him to update IE to version 6.0 but
> like I said, he can't even get onto MS sites. Any suggestions?
>
> thanks in advance
>
> jp
>
>

Unfortunately browser hijacking is becoming all too common. See:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/articles/hijacked/