Turns out it was a virus picked up when our local newspaper web site was
hacked. I fixed it with ComboFix and flushing the dns.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Felix Miata" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 9:18 AM
Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] hijacked browser?
> On 2010/02/25 08:12 (GMT-0600) Russ Cox composed:
>
>> A friend always gets redirected to a certain web site when she opens
>> either IE or Firefox. How can I correct that problem?
>
> Your friend may have clicked a "make this page my homepage" link,
> intentional
> or otherwise. Go into the browser's prefs/options menu and see. Change it
> to
> what she wants if it was. If not, then some malware has taken root and
> needs
> to be eradicated.
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