From: Chris Robinson 

I've seen this before (not with the same site though).  It could be
worthwhile checking your add/remove programs and looking to see if there's
some software that shouldn't be there.  Also, check your processes in Task
Manager for anything that seams out of the ordinary.

Chris.

"David N. Barnett" wrote:

> 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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