"Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous@example.invalid> wrote in
news:gi27qa$99p$1@news.motzarella.org:

> Lil' Abner wrote:
>
>> One of my friends called with a hijack problem and I was able to get
>> into his computer remotely with ShowMyPC. Any search you tried to do
>> with any search engine would always wind at up at one of those phony
>> search pages, I couldn't get to malwarebytes, safer-networking, or
>> superantispyware. So I got all the latest versions downloaded to my
>> own computer and then transferred them to his along with Hijack This.
>> I tried installing each of them in safe mode with networking on his
>> computer and was not able to successfully install or run any of them.
>> Spyware Doctor was already installed but couldn't update and says it
>> won't run until it gets the definitions. I'm not quite sure how that
>> got on there but I didn't do it. He's bringing it to me tomorrow.
>> It's a Gateway with XP SP3. I can do a wipe and recover if necessary
>> but I'd rather not if I can get out of it. Any ideas?
>
> 5. Edit and view his HOSTS file. Look for legitimate sites that don't
> belong there. (Did you run anything from PCButts?)
>

I forgot to mention that I looked at the HOSTS file. It's OK.
And NO! :-)

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