I recently wiped it due to a similar issue. But my wife visits the same
sites...

On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Michael Butash <michael@butash.net> wrote:

> How often do you actually ask windows-only people for anything helpful
> even for windoze?  :)
>
> Sounds like something is manipulating your outbound traffic, try
> malwarebytes, or a format.  I don't trust any windoze install once it's
> been compromised, and only slightly more even fully patched.  I had a
> friends new windoze install get owned in less than day of them ignoring
> my warning of using firefox w/noscript, and got the same kind of
> behavior hijacking url's like that.  Even when cleaned with
> malwarebytes, something still persisted that it couldn't find, so they
> just wiped it again.  Hopefully it wasn't one of those mbr-resident
> stealth ones thanks to sony...
>
> -mb
>
>
> >
> > why are we asking windows questions on Linux list?
> >
> > Craig
> >
> >
>
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