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Questions tagged [hijack]

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Google Search hijacked only when not being observed. Attaching a debugger returns normal results

I cannot figure this one out. I noticed my search results were a little "different" as of late. I'm not signed in when I do a google search, but if I click "Images" or "Videos" I am shown as signed in. There's no wikipedia information in the…
Derek Ziemba
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DNS Suffix Explanation

First question here. I had a problem with my Internet provider's modem, model Sagecom F@st 3890v3. The problem was that it pointed the device DNS Suffix to utopia.net Comcast had this problem (utopia.net hijack), now my Internet Provider is having…
Dan Chelger
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Can a web page hijack the alt+f4 function?

I just chanced upon a web page that seemingly remapped my default alt + f4 function to search on the website. When on that web page (a university webmail), whenever i press alt + f4, it goes to the search function rather than closing the…
Faken
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IE DNS lookup hijacked by Baidu

I have a user who went on a trip to China recently. Since they've come back, attempting to navigate to any of their bookmarks takes them to this url: http://nfdnserror1.wo.com.cn:8080/issueunziped/nf20140811/index.html?UserUrl= The page is…
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how to remove the chatzum search engine from my browser

I'm using Google Chrome on a Windows 7 computer, and I've noticed that when searching for something by just typing in the address bar, it now returns a search results page from something called 'chatzum', where it used to return a google search…
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ISPs hijacking DNS errors on the web

I've noticed that ISPs have started hijacking DNS errors and show their own error pages instead (complete with annoying graphics and ads). Is there any way to fix this, or are they doing it on their network outside of my control? Note that I've not…
user2074
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How can I disable arrow key hijacking on websites?

Sort of like preventing websites from disabling your ability to right click. Some websites hijack the up and down arrows on the keyboard and give them a different function than what they normally do (scroll the page). If there's a way to disable…
James Watt
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IE "About:Tab" page hijacked

Client o' mine, running Windows 7 64-bit, installed Kiwee Toolbar and then uninstalled it. The software is pretty much gone except for one last thing: The About:Tab IE page redirects to a Kiwee search page. I have temporarily disabled the "New Tab"…
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Is HTTPS connection hijacking possible?

This really bothers me a long time, because.. to encrypt / decrypt data you first need to send a encryption key / decryption key (on an unencrypted connection) to the computer you are comunicating with, right? If a hacker captures that key HTTPS…
user144773
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Prevent Browser Search Hijack

What is the best way to prevent my browser's default search being hijacked? Also, what is the quickest/easiest way to clean up this sort of hijack? I just had to clean off all the browsers on my computer because somehow they had thefastestweb.com as…
Vian Esterhuizen
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How is my ISP DNS hijacking AFTER all these precautions?

In IE9 when I search for anything my ISP hijacks google search and I get this result. To add complication to this I've already changed the default DNS servers (OpenDNS) months ago. This only happens in IE9; even after machine reboots and cache…
user100059
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MacOS Chrome default search is redirected to yahoo

The behavior looks like this: when I search "baby" with my default search engine google. I can see browser address bar shows "https://www.google.com.hk/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=JjV5WZ--N8TU8AfqgqII#q=baby" And then after 1 or 2 seconds, it redirects to…
Joshua
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Removal of Smart Web Search from system

Somehow Smart Web Search has been activated in my system. When I searched about it, I figured out that it's a hijacker program. Is there any way to remove this thing? I tried to remove it but was unable to do so.
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Browser randomly opens router login requester instead of webpage

I don't understand why this is happening..3 or 4 times a day when I'm browsing the web I'll click a link in my bookmarks and instead of going to the webpage a requester comes up asking for my router login. If I escape out of that I get a Forbidden…
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Can search engine hijack be prevented in Chrome

Is there a way to prevent installers from changing the default search engine in Chrome? Answers to a similar question talk about a "Protector" feature in development versions from 2011, but I can't find any recent references to such a…
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