From: "Paul Ranson" 

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

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

Paul

"David N. Barnett"  wrote in message
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> 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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