Browser Hijacking

[cpomd]

After an outage in the Ashton Area which lasted most of the day and was confirmed by Customer Support. The Broadband Connection finally came on I found both Browsers IE7 and Firefox had been Hijacked and had been set to the following Address http://damasgate.com/vb/ which is some sort of Arabic Site.
I do not know whether it came from Virginmedia or elsewhere and am running Comodo Security Spybot and Adaware to clean PC. Any suggestions as to what else I could run?

[danielf]

Originally Posted by cpomd

After an outage in the Ashton Area which lasted most of the day and was confirmed by Customer Support. The Broadband Connection finally came on I found both Browsers IE7 and Firefox had been Hijacked and had been set to the following Address http://damasgate.com/vb/ which is some sort of Arabic Site.
I do not know whether it came from Virginmedia or elsewhere and am running Comodo Security Spybot and Adaware to clean PC. Any suggestions as to what else I could run?

Antivirus. Many suppliers provide a free online scan. This will be slow, but you can be pretty sure that the machine that runs the AV is not infected. Running Hijackthis is a good idea as well. The output from this can be rather cryptic, but if you post the output here, there will be people willing to check it and advise you regarding dodgy entries.

[xpod]

Re: Browser Hijacking

The NoScript extension will tighten up your security in Firefox for you.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722

[Aragorn]

How much data (docs/photos) do you have and do you have a recovery disk.
In a lot of cases, the safest/quickest option is to recover the OS to original state and reinst program / data.
That is the only 100% guarantee that you haven't kept some nasty lurker.
And as XPod says, use NoScript to browse any sites you don't know.

[cpomd]

Thanks for your suggestions I have taken all your advice and Hijack seemed to show an unwelcome program which I removed. I added the noscript to Firefox and will monitor the situation. If I have to I will reinstall but am reluctant to do so as I have to reinstall games Appz etc. Once again thanks for your help.

[Matty_]

Try running http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php and http://www.superantispyware.com/
Maybe even a-squared Free 4.5 http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/ beware of possible false positives from the Ikarus engine though.

These will hopefully pick up any unwanted code, allthough you can never be 100%