PR> From: "Paul Ranson" 

 PR> Is this with wrong URLs at any site, or just www.topcon.com?

 PR> With most Web Servers one of the things you can configure is
 PR> what gets sent back for 404 (and other errors).

FWIW: i used samspade's nonrendering browser and went to
http://www.topcon.com/blah and took a look at the returned 404 page... it
appear normal in all sense of the word... no redirects or scripts hidden in
it...

i do note that topcon is running IIS v4.0...


 PR> Paul

 PR> "David N. Barnett"  wrote in message
 PR> news:76u9uu4hb2025obi52tq5d71v7vj01eji1{at}4ax.com...
>> A friend who has an office in my building is a web designer.  His main
>> client is www.topcon.com.  He has Mac, XP Pro, and Linux systems side
>> by side on his desk.  Recently his XP Pro system has been
"infected"
>> with an unusual problem -- whenever he mistypes a URL in his browser,
>> instead of seeing a 404 error page, he is redirected to
>> www.developer.com, which then cascades pop-up ad sites.
>>
>> This happens with any browser -- IE6, Netscape, and he just installed
>> Mozilla after the problem appeared and it does it too.  Ad-Aware
>> doesn't find the problem.
>>
>> There doesn't seem to be any listing for www.developer.com in his
>> local hosts file, or anywhere in the registry.  I've given him
>> George's local hosts list, but I don't know if he's installed it yet.
>>
>> Any ideas on how to nuke this?
>>
>> --dnb

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