internet shite

[deathboy]

OK, why do ALL links from the google search results page open in a new fucking tab?

I definitely have not changed this. In fact, my saved prefs choose to NOT do that.

ARG.

Also, what the fuck's up with Peer Guardian? At the moment, on both my boxes, it currently blocks all fucking internets access.

Great!

Comments

[untermensch.livejournal.com]

That doesn't sound right. You sure you haven't been rootkitted? I get paranoid about these things - I once got rootkitted by something very new that nothing and nobody else could recognise.

Ping google.co.uk and google.com and see if the IP address are the same, or maybe post them here. It's standard fare for rootkits to do weird shit to your google searches (intercepting them by means of DNS hijack). Or you might find that download.lavasoft.com resolves to 127.0.0.1, that kinda shit.

Else maybe your Ctrl key is stuck down or something :P

[deathboy.livejournal.com]

sonuvabitch. I have indeed been pwned somehow.

download.lavasoft.com IS rerouted to 127.0.0.1

Shit.

[untermensch.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they love redirecting adware remover sites and google (if you find google.co.uk and google.com resolve to the same IP you know you've been had).

I can email you Spybot and Adaware but I doubt they'll sort it out. When I got rootkitted in this way, I found 3 kinds of malware and removed them, but nothing picked up the rootkit, which just kept re-installing them. Cue a weekend of frustration and grinding teeth. Eventually a tool from hijackthis helped me narrow it down to something that was living in c:\windows\system32\ -- except it couldn't pick it up properly or remove it. Had to boot off the Windows install CD, enter recovery mode, re-jig the registry to see the last valid restore point, and then go file-by-file through everything in system32.

This is because the fucking little cunt hid itself even from dir /a in the DOS prompt. You could *only* find it if you specified a wildcard spec that showed less than 10 files. So, I had to compare a full c:\windows\system32>dir /a with a piecemeal version dir /a aa*, dir /a ab* etc.

Enjoy!