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« on: December 10, 2003, 08:39:45 PM »
Hello, when I type www.msn.com or search google for msn it comes up to My Handy Search web site instead of MSN's web site. Any ideas? Thanks, PV

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« Reply #1 on: January 14, 2004, 02:23:43 AM »
i have the same problem... anyone out there know how to get rid of it?

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« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2004, 08:48:11 PM »
I also have the same problem. Seemed to come about with the trojan.byteverify virus. Anyone know how to fix this?

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« Reply #3 on: January 23, 2004, 10:55:50 PM »
I have the same problem!  I had the Trojan.ByteVerify virus and got rid of it.  Now Now no matter what link I click for MSN or if I type it in the address bar, myhandysearch poses as MSN.com.  If anyone knows of a solution, PLEASE help.
Grrrr... I hate trojans!

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« Reply #4 on: January 24, 2004, 12:19:56 AM »
I also had the the same ByteVerify bug, that is giving me the same problem, and also takes my IE to mysearch.com as well as well as "search engine for you." This also still happens to me after I've done several full scans. But now I've also got this stupid little pop-up that continues to show up even when I'm not on line. (I've got my pop-up blocker engaged, so I know not to open this thing up, so I just continue to exit out of it. But it showed up at the same time as the Bytebug, so I know that it has got to be at at least partially responsible for what's going on.

Now I've seen earlier reports on this site that suggest downloading something from "http://www.merijn.org/files/CWShredder.exe" and I was also instructed by Norton Anti virus to download a patch from microsoft for the JS.Exception.Exploit bug (that apparently accompanied ByteVerify)...;  So does anybody out there know..., is one better than the other, or should I do both. Please help....! This is drivin' me nutts!!!       http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mad.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':angry:\' />

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« Reply #5 on: January 24, 2004, 03:23:36 PM »
I solved my problem today. The redirection was taking place in the HOSTS file in the windows directory. It is a text file that can be edited to remove the links causing the problem.

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