- Apr 23, 2013
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It all started last few days ago,
I tried to type into my address bar a social network that a lot of people use often which is facebook. But the problem was that I could not access that particular site, and instead, it redirected me to a scam site I believe. And the same happens when I try to access google and/or youtube. (http://puu.sh/7aw80 / http://puu.sh/7aw5y)
The site appeared to show me a box saying that there is a problem, it said to update my flash player by installing some file. After staring at the site for a few moments I noticed that my address bar is still the same, it didn’t change to show me this flash player pro address. It was something that really confused me, also notice that there is unistall instead of uninstall at the bottom. A typo that you wouldn’t expect to see.
Anyway, after googling around I seen some users complain about the site being spam or whatnot, something that wouldn’t be wise to install even though the site didn’t register any threats in the web-address scans.
I simply clicked “Remind me later” and there, I automatically downloaded a file. I got even more confused. The file, it was tiny, like a few kbs size and named setup.exe (See image for details: http://puu.sh/7awgK) Unfortunately, even after I tried to look up what this Apache software was, I couldn’t tell what was it.
I tried to use different browsers such as Mozilla Firefox, IE, and CoolNovo etc. Yet I always got the same page asking me to download that file, or show me these pages. (http://puu.sh/7cyKg and http://puu.sh/7axD6)
I do have my clock set, I tried looking up SSL stuff in my browsers and I even tried to reformat by completely wiping out my system drive, but that was all in vain. What I noticed after that is that every device that is from the same network showed the same thing. Although connecting from a different network worked just fine.
I’m desperately looking for anything I could try, if you happen to have any idea on this I would be really grateful to you.
Also, I still haven’t tried to reset my router, it’s a TP-Link one.
If you need any more info, I would be glad to tell you more if I can.
I tried to type into my address bar a social network that a lot of people use often which is facebook. But the problem was that I could not access that particular site, and instead, it redirected me to a scam site I believe. And the same happens when I try to access google and/or youtube. (http://puu.sh/7aw80 / http://puu.sh/7aw5y)
The site appeared to show me a box saying that there is a problem, it said to update my flash player by installing some file. After staring at the site for a few moments I noticed that my address bar is still the same, it didn’t change to show me this flash player pro address. It was something that really confused me, also notice that there is unistall instead of uninstall at the bottom. A typo that you wouldn’t expect to see.
Anyway, after googling around I seen some users complain about the site being spam or whatnot, something that wouldn’t be wise to install even though the site didn’t register any threats in the web-address scans.
I simply clicked “Remind me later” and there, I automatically downloaded a file. I got even more confused. The file, it was tiny, like a few kbs size and named setup.exe (See image for details: http://puu.sh/7awgK) Unfortunately, even after I tried to look up what this Apache software was, I couldn’t tell what was it.
I tried to use different browsers such as Mozilla Firefox, IE, and CoolNovo etc. Yet I always got the same page asking me to download that file, or show me these pages. (http://puu.sh/7cyKg and http://puu.sh/7axD6)
I do have my clock set, I tried looking up SSL stuff in my browsers and I even tried to reformat by completely wiping out my system drive, but that was all in vain. What I noticed after that is that every device that is from the same network showed the same thing. Although connecting from a different network worked just fine.
I’m desperately looking for anything I could try, if you happen to have any idea on this I would be really grateful to you.
Also, I still haven’t tried to reset my router, it’s a TP-Link one.
If you need any more info, I would be glad to tell you more if I can.
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