On 5/14/18, IRRITATING SPAMMER <[email protected]> wrote: > Lee wrote: >> On 5/13/18, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Sunday, 13 May 2018 12:17:38 UTC+1, chicagofan wrote: >>>> IRRITATING SPAMMER wrote: >>>>> <snip> >>>>> >>>>> It appears that your problem is a serious danger to your data and you >>>>> need to fix it smartish. >>>>> - How did it get past your virus scanner in the first place? >>>>> - What router are you using? Some of them are insecure. >>>>> As a temporary measure (you do need to fix this), try using something >>>>> like https://duckduckgo.com/ as a search engine. You can either call >>>>> it explicitly or change your settings to call it implicitly. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> I've been using duckduckgo for several years with no problems. Can't >>>> tell any difference from Google. Mozilla reference caused the switch. >>>> bj >>> >>> No difference to this hijacker/virus when starting in safe mode. As soon >>> as >>> google.com is entered it blocks with Capitcha questions which are never >>> satisfied. I use Kaspersky antivirus and Malwarebytes and Adwcleaner. >>> Nothing they found and cleaned has helped so far. >> >> Safe mode doesn't reset your prefs. Try it with a brand new profile. >> >> Lee > > My "research" on the subject indicated the problem could even be a > rootkit.
It could be a lot of things. But a rootkit that affects SeaMonkey and not Firefox? doubtful > The fact that resetting the router helped for a few minutes > leads me to suspect that the problem may not even be on the PC. Resetting the router could have caused the router to be assigned a new IP address from the ISP.. One that hasn't been making an absurd number of requests to google. Lee _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
