[SGVLUG] MS bing trojan in systems!

[Tom Emerson]

I'm not sure if this is the same issue, but from a thread dated tomorrow, I
found the following:
http://www.techsupportforum.com/security-center/virus-trojan-spyware-help/resolved-hjt-threads/439598-google-bing-redirects-search-links.html

In summary, search results, regardless of source, are being redirected to
bogus sites.  Thread comments point to a rootkit being involved.  Similar
threads mentioned possible hijinks with the "hosts" file.
On Dec 7, 2010 11:20 AM, "Matthew Campbell" <dvdmatt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Uh, Matti, who else's hijackware would want to install Microsoft as
> the search provider? I would think that nobody else would have an
> interest in doing that unless they were paid by Microsoft to generate
> installs.
>
> Matt
>
> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 10:58 AM, matti <mathew_2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> of hand, I am thinking another downloaded add-on/hijack-ware may
>> have done it... was thinking about attempting to replicate,
>> but not certain if I want to put resources into testing the
>> theories.
>>
>> cheers
>> matti
>>
>>
>>
>>> Matti, I really hope you are wrong
>>> here; that would be too crude.
>>>
>>> Matt
>>
>>> > "Firefox Address Bar Goes to Bing
>>
>>> > http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/693508#answer-16184
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Matthew Campbell | Chief Technical Officer
> Imagination Games
> 3450 Cahuenga Blvd. West #103
> Los Angeles, CA  90068
> 818.314.9897 (M)
> matt.campbell at imaginationgames.com
> www.imaginationgames.com
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://www.sgvlug.net/pipermail/sgvlug/attachments/20101207/bc601b0d/attachment.html