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  From: Adam Smith <adam.smith@sageautomation.com>
  To  : Ian Loxton <ilox@airnet.com.au>
  Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 14:48:29 +0930

Re: [OT] (win problem) I only get to 1 web site

On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 09:55:03PM +0930, Ian Loxton said:
> Adam Smith wrote:
> > ... one of those programs that adds a DNS suffix to
> > your configuration ...
> >
> Tell me more.   Don't recall running anything like that.

There's not much more to it than that, and I could not remember the name of
the specific one I was familiar with, so after some reasearching I found it
was lop.com.  From a web page's excerpt:

"Lop.com also hijacks, and even points IE's DNS Error and other error pages
to lop.com. If you can't get rid of this as your homepage, download their
two (!) uninstallers, to remove hompage hijacking and remove the Lop.com
toolbar. Reportedly, lop.com may also alter the Domain field of your DNS
configuration, visible by clicking Start > Settings > Control Panel >
Network > (name of adapter) > DNS Configuration . There is also an
unconfirmed report of it altering the domain suffix as well."

This is the symptom to which I was referring.  I've seen it alter the DNS
suffix before.  Perhaps you were infected with a similar trojan-type
program?

> 
> Cheers,  Ian
> 
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