QuikSand
07-27-2004, 12:59 PM
I think I even posted about this here before...
I am a regular user of MS Internet Explorer (though that may be changing as we speak) and have had occasional problems with some sort of trojan-type program that redirects my browser to a site called lop.com from time to time.
I have used three or four different progams to try to remove it, with no complete success. For months, when this has cropped up, I have re-run SpyBot Search and Destroy, which routinely finds a variety of little cookies and things related to lop.com and other junk, deletes them all , and tells me I'm immunized against everything. Then, after a while, I start having problems again, and I have to re-run it, when it again tells me that I have a variety of little files, but everything should be okay now. Ad infinitum, ad nauseum.
If you aren't familiar, the lop.com site is designed to hijack your browser whenever you are trying to access a site that can't be found - so rather than getting a standard 404 page of some sort, you get re-sent to the lop.com page - whatever that's all about. I guess the point is that their page gets a lot of hits, and they sell ads based on that. All I know is that it's a major pain when I try to access a routine site (like this one) and get redirected...
At the moment, after running S&D for the third time today, things seem to have settled down. (For a while, I couldn't even get to refdesk, much less FOFC) But I'm still ticked off. A search for this thing gives scores of places offering advice -- but nothing seems to have really solved the problem.
One bit of advice I have received is to finally dump MSIE, and go to something like Mozilla Firefox. So, I downloaded that, and started it up. My first five minutes included getting sent to lop.com when I tried to go anywhere at all... a total mess. But it seems to be better now, for whatever reason.
Anyway, I'm in Firefox now... and enjoying it so far. But I still would like to kill this lop.com thing once and for all. Ideally, this would be free... and easy. But I'm not optimistic that I can get that particular combination in this case, so I think i'd accept either one of the two.
Any help from the vaunted FOFC knowledge base?
I am a regular user of MS Internet Explorer (though that may be changing as we speak) and have had occasional problems with some sort of trojan-type program that redirects my browser to a site called lop.com from time to time.
I have used three or four different progams to try to remove it, with no complete success. For months, when this has cropped up, I have re-run SpyBot Search and Destroy, which routinely finds a variety of little cookies and things related to lop.com and other junk, deletes them all , and tells me I'm immunized against everything. Then, after a while, I start having problems again, and I have to re-run it, when it again tells me that I have a variety of little files, but everything should be okay now. Ad infinitum, ad nauseum.
If you aren't familiar, the lop.com site is designed to hijack your browser whenever you are trying to access a site that can't be found - so rather than getting a standard 404 page of some sort, you get re-sent to the lop.com page - whatever that's all about. I guess the point is that their page gets a lot of hits, and they sell ads based on that. All I know is that it's a major pain when I try to access a routine site (like this one) and get redirected...
At the moment, after running S&D for the third time today, things seem to have settled down. (For a while, I couldn't even get to refdesk, much less FOFC) But I'm still ticked off. A search for this thing gives scores of places offering advice -- but nothing seems to have really solved the problem.
One bit of advice I have received is to finally dump MSIE, and go to something like Mozilla Firefox. So, I downloaded that, and started it up. My first five minutes included getting sent to lop.com when I tried to go anywhere at all... a total mess. But it seems to be better now, for whatever reason.
Anyway, I'm in Firefox now... and enjoying it so far. But I still would like to kill this lop.com thing once and for all. Ideally, this would be free... and easy. But I'm not optimistic that I can get that particular combination in this case, so I think i'd accept either one of the two.
Any help from the vaunted FOFC knowledge base?