273891 - centrixdirect.com - browser hijacked: can't go to web pages now

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Chellie]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

I mistyped in the URL for a web page and was redirected to
www.centrixdirect.com, had been surfing for an hour or so on two or three pages
I look at daily, large popular pages, with no incident.

Now, I cannot type a website into the browser bar without it taking me to
www.centrixdirect.com.  In the pulldown menu with URL's I have visited, the
redirected surfing labels all those sites as "Centrix Direct."

Ad-Aware, Spybot, HijackThis and Shredder of course don't find anything because
they're checking IE.  I have booted windows XP in safe mode and scanned with all
of same with also no result.

It appears I picked this up at www.somethingfishy.com, which was mistyped by me
when looking for another site.

Thank you.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Noa Groveman]

WFM in Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20041209
Firefox/1.0+

Can't confirm

Comment 2

[Patrick]

wfm.
[And fwiw: i think spybot and AdAware do not work specifically for IE. They
check the entire system for suspect stuff]

Can't confirm.
Adding URL to URL field and removing capitalization from summary.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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