Hello:

I am running Windows Vista Home Premium Operating System and on a daily
basis my Internet Explorer 7 is being hi jacked/hacked into.

I have installed on my computer system: Windows Defender and I am using the
Windows Firewall Program.

I have installed for my anti virus/firewall program/ Norton Protection
Center and still my Internet Explorer 7 is being hi jacked on a daily basis.

How can I better protect my Internet Explorer 7 from being hi jacked on a
daily basis?

Thank You,

Sidney wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I am running Windows Vista Home Premium Operating System and on a daily
> basis my Internet Explorer 7 is being hi jacked/hacked into.
>
> I have installed on my computer system: Windows Defender and I am using the
> Windows Firewall Program.
>
> I have installed for my anti virus/firewall program/ Norton Protection
> Center and still my Internet Explorer 7 is being hi jacked on a daily basis.
>
> How can I better protect my Internet Explorer 7 from being hi jacked on a
> daily basis?

Suggest you install all the following programs as well to find spyware:

Ad-Aware
Spybot
Super AntiSpyware

From the sounds of it, you have spyware which is resistant to the tools
you now have.

He only has Defender and Norton's, he didn't say he had any real security
tools to start with. :-D

Couldn't help it, sorry. Even so, the parent's reply is completely correct.
I'd also try AVG Antispyware. I can vouch for Spybot and AdAware, not the
other. I can say that AVG generally gets more stuff out these days than
Spybot and Adaware.

One thing you might do is tell us what you mean by 'hijacked'.

"C A Upsdell" <""cupsdell"@nospam@upsdel" wrote:

> Sidney wrote:
> > Hello:
> >
> > I am running Windows Vista Home Premium Operating System and on a daily
> > basis my Internet Explorer 7 is being hi jacked/hacked into.
> >
> > I have installed on my computer system: Windows Defender and I am using the
> > Windows Firewall Program.
> >
> > I have installed for my anti virus/firewall program/ Norton Protection
> > Center and still my Internet Explorer 7 is being hi jacked on a daily basis.
> >
> > How can I better protect my Internet Explorer 7 from being hi jacked on a
> > daily basis?
>
> Suggest you install all the following programs as well to find spyware:
>
> Ad-Aware
> Spybot
> Super AntiSpyware
>
> From the sounds of it, you have spyware which is resistant to the tools
> you now have.
>

"Sidney" wrote in message
news:7F89F99D-C37C-4915-805A-FF13772890DF@microsoft.com...
>
> I am running Windows Vista Home Premium Operating System and on a
> daily
> basis my Internet Explorer 7 is being hi jacked/hacked into.
>
> I have installed on my computer system: Windows Defender and I am
> using the
> Windows Firewall Program.
>
> I have installed for my anti virus/firewall program/ Norton
> Protection
> Center and still my Internet Explorer 7 is being hi jacked on a
> daily basis.
>
> How can I better protect my Internet Explorer 7 from being hi jacked
> on a
> daily basis?


And not once did you describe what happens which YOU suspect means
your browser is hijacked. PopUps, change in proxy, redirected to
different web pages, mouseover events, what?

Explain what "hijacked" means to you and how you've determined the machine's
been hijacked or hacked.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
DTS-L http://dts-l.net/

Sidney wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I am running Windows Vista Home Premium Operating System and on a daily
> basis my Internet Explorer 7 is being hi jacked/hacked into.
>
> I have installed on my computer system: Windows Defender and I am using
> the
> Windows Firewall Program.
>
> I have installed for my anti virus/firewall program/ Norton Protection
> Center and still my Internet Explorer 7 is being hi jacked on a daily
> basis.
>
> How can I better protect my Internet Explorer 7 from being hi jacked on a
> daily basis?
>
> Thank You,

Hijacked/hacking into my Microsoft Internet Explorer Web Browser means , that
when I am copying and pasting a document onto another web page, problems are
occuring in the toolbar on the upper left side of the web page such as,
applications are opening when I am trying to copy and paste to another web
page and this happens on a continual basis and I performed a search for
browsers and I find these files under browsers:
panansonic.browser
palm.browser
nokia.browser
jphone.browser
go.america.browser
ericsson.browser
webtv.browser
on my windows vista home premium operating system.

Thank You,


"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:

> Explain what "hijacked" means to you and how you've determined the machine's
> been hijacked or hacked.
> --
> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
> MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
> AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
> DTS-L http://dts-l.net/
>
> Sidney wrote:
> > Hello:
> >
> > I am running Windows Vista Home Premium Operating System and on a daily
> > basis my Internet Explorer 7 is being hi jacked/hacked into.
> >
> > I have installed on my computer system: Windows Defender and I am using
> > the
> > Windows Firewall Program.
> >
> > I have installed for my anti virus/firewall program/ Norton Protection
> > Center and still my Internet Explorer 7 is being hi jacked on a daily
> > basis.
> >
> > How can I better protect my Internet Explorer 7 from being hi jacked on a
> > daily basis?
> >
> > Thank You,
>
>

What anti-virus application was installed prior to the install of "Norton
Protection Center"?

What free-trial security applications came preinstalled on the machine when
you bought it?

If "Norton Protection Center" includes a firewall, you do NOT want the
Windows Firewall enabled, too.

==================================

=> Does this behavior persist if you start IE7 in No Add-ons mode? To start
IE7 in No Add-ons mode:

1. Right-click on the blue IE desktop icon and select Start without Add-ons;

2. Start > (All) Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Internet Explorer
(No add-ons).

Troubleshooting and Internet Explorer’s (No Add-ons) Mode:
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/07/25/678113.aspx

=> Does the problem persist if you Reset IE7 Settings (RIES)?
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923737 <= Read before using!
--
~PA Bear

Sidney wrote:
> Hijacked/hacking into my Microsoft Internet Explorer Web Browser means ,
> that when I am copying and pasting a document onto another web page,
> problems are occuring in the toolbar on the upper left side of the web
> page such as, applications are opening when I am trying to copy and paste
> to another web page and this happens on a continual basis and I performed
> a
> search for browsers and I find these files under browsers:
> panansonic.browser
> palm.browser
> nokia.browser
> jphone.browser
> go.america.browser
> ericsson.browser
> webtv.browser
> on my windows vista home premium operating system.
>
> Thank You,
>
>
> "PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:
>
>> Explain what "hijacked" means to you and how you've determined the
>> machine's been hijacked or hacked.
>> --
>> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
>> MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
>> AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
>> DTS-L http://dts-l.net/
>>
>> Sidney wrote:
>>> Hello:
>>>
>>> I am running Windows Vista Home Premium Operating System and on a daily
>>> basis my Internet Explorer 7 is being hi jacked/hacked into.
>>>
>>> I have installed on my computer system: Windows Defender and I am using
>>> the Windows Firewall Program.
>>>
>>> I have installed for my anti virus/firewall program/ Norton Protection
>>> Center and still my Internet Explorer 7 is being hi jacked on a daily
>>> basis.
>>>
>>> How can I better protect my Internet Explorer 7 from being hi jacked on
>>> a
>>> daily basis?
>>>
>>> Thank You,

"Sidney" wrote in message
news:F5AA214B-DF47-423A-8AAC-6EE062B7F907@microsoft.com...
> Hijacked/hacking into my Microsoft Internet Explorer Web Browser
> means , that
> when I am copying and pasting a document onto another web page,

Unless the .htm file is local (i.e., on YOUR host), just how do you
expect to ever modify a web page whose file is on a web server host
which is inaccessible to you? Are you using something other than
Notepad (or other text editor) to modify your .htm files on YOUR host?
Are you trying to paste into the input forms in a web page or replace
the whole web page? If you are replacing the whole web page, you
don't have access to the .htm file on the server to replace it. If
you are pasting into an input form within the web page, I have to
wonder if you installed a clipboard manager to replace the one
included in Windows.

Web browsers read and render the content of web pages. They are not
editors. Sounds like you are trying to use a web browser as an
editor.

> problems are
> occuring in the toolbar on the upper left side of the web page

And that "toolbar" would be WHAT? Some add-on you installed in
Internet Explorer? An object in the HTML code for the web page that
*looks* like a toolbar?

> such as,
> applications are opening when I am trying to copy and paste to
> another web
> page

You cannot replace the web page. Its contents are in a file on the
web server. You don't have access to the web server. If the .htm
file is local (i.e., it is your web page) then the same behavior you
note would also occur when pasting into any plain-text application,
like Notepad (which is often used to write up .htm files).

> and this happens on a continual basis and I performed a search for
> browsers and I find these files under browsers:
> panansonic.browser
> palm.browser
> nokia.browser
> jphone.browser
> go.america.browser
> ericsson.browser
> webtv.browser
> on my windows vista home premium operating system.

And WHERE did you search? A Google search will find lots of web
browsers. "find these files under browsers". You have a folder named
"browsers"? WHERE "on your windows vista" are these files found?

Hello:

I had installed the mcafee security center before the installtion of the
norton protection center and I even tried the windows live one care program
and still had these computer problems.

the computer system came preinstalled with the mcafee security center when I
bought this computer system.

Thank You For Being Patience,



"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:

> What anti-virus application was installed prior to the install of "Norton
> Protection Center"?
>
> What free-trial security applications came preinstalled on the machine when
> you bought it?
>
> If "Norton Protection Center" includes a firewall, you do NOT want the
> Windows Firewall enabled, too.
>
> ==================================
>
> => Does this behavior persist if you start IE7 in No Add-ons mode? To start
> IE7 in No Add-ons mode:
>
> 1. Right-click on the blue IE desktop icon and select Start without Add-ons;
>
> 2. Start > (All) Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Internet Explorer
> (No add-ons).
>
> Troubleshooting and Internet Explorer’s (No Add-ons) Mode:
> http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/07/25/678113.aspx
>
> => Does the problem persist if you Reset IE7 Settings (RIES)?
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923737 <= Read before using!
> --
> ~PA Bear
>
> Sidney wrote:
> > Hijacked/hacking into my Microsoft Internet Explorer Web Browser means ,
> > that when I am copying and pasting a document onto another web page,
> > problems are occuring in the toolbar on the upper left side of the web
> > page such as, applications are opening when I am trying to copy and paste
> > to another web page and this happens on a continual basis and I performed
> > a
> > search for browsers and I find these files under browsers:
> > panansonic.browser
> > palm.browser
> > nokia.browser
> > jphone.browser
> > go.america.browser
> > ericsson.browser
> > webtv.browser
> > on my windows vista home premium operating system.
> >
> > Thank You,
> >
> >
> > "PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:
> >
> >> Explain what "hijacked" means to you and how you've determined the
> >> machine's been hijacked or hacked.
> >> --
> >> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
> >> MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
> >> AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
> >> DTS-L http://dts-l.net/
> >>
> >> Sidney wrote:
> >>> Hello:
> >>>
> >>> I am running Windows Vista Home Premium Operating System and on a daily
> >>> basis my Internet Explorer 7 is being hi jacked/hacked into.
> >>>
> >>> I have installed on my computer system: Windows Defender and I am using
> >>> the Windows Firewall Program.
> >>>
> >>> I have installed for my anti virus/firewall program/ Norton Protection
> >>> Center and still my Internet Explorer 7 is being hi jacked on a daily
> >>> basis.
> >>>
> >>> How can I better protect my Internet Explorer 7 from being hi jacked on
> >>> a
> >>> daily basis?
> >>>
> >>> Thank You,
>
>

Aha. Run this removal tool, reboot, and then see if things improve for you:
McAfee Consumer Products Removal Tool
http://service.mcafee.com/FAQDocumen... type=TS&ia=1
--
~PA Bear


Sidney wrote:
> I had installed the mcafee security center before the installtion of the
> norton protection center and I even tried the windows live one care
> program
> and still had these computer problems.
>
> the computer system came preinstalled with the mcafee security center when
> I
> bought this computer system.
>
> Thank You For Being Patience,
>
> "PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:
>
>> What anti-virus application was installed prior to the install of "Norton
>> Protection Center"?
>>
>> What free-trial security applications came preinstalled on the machine
>> when
>> you bought it?
>>
>> If "Norton Protection Center" includes a firewall, you do NOT want the
>> Windows Firewall enabled, too.
>>
>> ==================================
>>
>> => Does this behavior persist if you start IE7 in No Add-ons mode? To
>> start IE7 in No Add-ons mode:
>>
>> 1. Right-click on the blue IE desktop icon and select Start without
>> Add-ons;
>>
>> 2. Start > (All) Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Internet
>> Explorer
>> (No add-ons).
>>
>> Troubleshooting and Internet Explorer’s (No Add-ons) Mode:
>> http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/07/25/678113.aspx
>>
>> => Does the problem persist if you Reset IE7 Settings (RIES)?
>> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923737 <= Read before using!
>> --
>> ~PA Bear
>>
>> Sidney wrote:
>>> Hijacked/hacking into my Microsoft Internet Explorer Web Browser means ,
>>> that when I am copying and pasting a document onto another web page,
>>> problems are occuring in the toolbar on the upper left side of the web
>>> page such as, applications are opening when I am trying to copy and
>>> paste
>>> to another web page and this happens on a continual basis and I
>>> performed
>>> a
>>> search for browsers and I find these files under browsers:
>>> panansonic.browser
>>> palm.browser
>>> nokia.browser
>>> jphone.browser
>>> go.america.browser
>>> ericsson.browser
>>> webtv.browser
>>> on my windows vista home premium operating system.
>>>
>>> Thank You,
>>>
>>>
>>> "PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:
>>>
>>>> Explain what "hijacked" means to you and how you've determined the
>>>> machine's been hijacked or hacked.
>>>> --
>>>> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
>>>> MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
>>>> AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
>>>> DTS-L http://dts-l.net/
>>>>
>>>> Sidney wrote:
>>>>> Hello:
>>>>>
>>>>> I am running Windows Vista Home Premium Operating System and on a
>>>>> daily
>>>>> basis my Internet Explorer 7 is being hi jacked/hacked into.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have installed on my computer system: Windows Defender and I am
>>>>> using
>>>>> the Windows Firewall Program.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have installed for my anti virus/firewall program/ Norton Protection
>>>>> Center and still my Internet Explorer 7 is being hi jacked on a daily
>>>>> basis.
>>>>>
>>>>> How can I better protect my Internet Explorer 7 from being hi jacked
>>>>> on
>>>>> a
>>>>> daily basis?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank You,