What is this http://tefs.com/passthrough/index.html????

[DaLoStWuN]

HELP!!

If someone can help me I would appreciate it. I have this parasite on my computer. It's actual name or where it comes from I don't know, but it has control over my homepage. It brings up things (i.e pop-up ads.)that I have no idea where they came from. I can't get rid of it. Whenever I delete it off my internet tools, it comes right back. When I come online it comes up as http://tefs.com/passthrough/index.html?. I have no idea what it is or how I can get rid of it. If anyone has heard of this or had to deal with it themselves, I would appreciate any feedback.

???

Sincerely,

Someone who it truly lost

[Pieter_Arntz]

Hi DaLoStWuN,

That sounds very much like you´ve been hit by lop.com
Use either Adaware 6 (http://www.lavasoftusa.com) or Spybot S&D (http://security.kolla.de/) to clean out this spyware. Make sure to update before you do so.
If that doesn´t solve your problem, could you post your HijackThis log (http://www.tomcoyote.org/hjt/)
Download, Unzip and run HijackTHis, Then click Scan > Save log, save the log as a .txt file and copy & paste its content into your next post.
Don´t fix anything yet. Most of what it finds is harmless.

Regards,

Pieter

[spy1]

It comes up as a blank page (as a "Restricted" site) if you're using IE-SPYAD. (Talking about the link he gave above). Pete

[DaLoStWuN]

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR HELP!!
It worked.


DaLostWun

[Pieter_Arntz]

Glad to hear that. :)
Have a look at SpywareBlaster and SpywareGuard to prevent future problems.
Information can be found on this forum: http://www.wilderssecurity.com/archive/index.php?board=34
And don´t forget to clear out some "garbage" placed in your favorites.

Regards,

Pieter

[DaLoStWuN]

Yeah, I had actually read an article on parasite's by Brian K. Lewis. The article is called Computer Parasites. He had actually recommended SpywareBlaster in his article, so I already checked it out and downloaded it. I definitely don't want to have to go through this again. There was a whole bunch of stuff on thre from Lop.com and I have no idea where it came from. There was also a bunch of other stuff on there that I needed to get rid of. Hopefully if I go on Bigfix, I'll be able to fix some of the security holes in Microsoft. I think that might help out to.

Thank you once again.

DaLostWun

[Pieter_Arntz]

Hi DaLoStWuN,

If you or any else else who has fallen victim to lop.com or Xupiter/Orbiter browser hijacks, would be willing to be interviewed, read this thread: http://www.spywareinfoforum.com/forums/index.php?s=641a624a37b6393a4fc9fcd716299b7c&act=ST&f=12&t=5334&hl=

Regards,

Pieter