has the bbc news site been hijacked? or is my PC...

[minimax]

fecked?

if I go here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/ I get a strange commercial site which looks a bit like the genuine one but is obviously not...what's going on? is my PC knackered?

funny enough, I clicked on a link someone posted up here on PH earlier on in the day and that's when it started behaving funny...

[NiceCupOfTea]

Looks OK to me (unless you are talking about the content )

Run Spybot & AVG!

[minimax]

NiceCupOfTea said:

Looks OK to me (unless you are talking about the content ) Run Spybot & AVG!

so when you click on the link I just posted you're getting the normal bbc news website?

how odd!

i'm still getting the blasted hijacked thingy. bugger. how am I going to explain this to IT!

hi, I was er...surfing this site...er...got a problem...er...:click: brrr

anic:



:slightly worried:

[ewenm]

NiceCupOfTea said:

Looks OK to me (unless you are talking about the content ) Run Spybot & AVG!

Looks fine to me too...

[TheLemming]

Looks ok to me as well.

You may have picked up something less than legit somehow thats hijacking your browser.

What makes you think thats happening? Ie what looks wrong on the linked BBC page?

[trackcar]

what was the link you clicked on so we can all avoid it?

[minimax]

oh dear. I seem to have a virus on my work PC!

uh-oh

[tallbloke]

minimax said:

how am I going to explain this to IT!

You probably don't need to. They're all giggling away at your expense with the redirected dns for the bbc site.

Or you got a bug.

[Parrot of Doom]

Run the usual suspects:

AVG (free virus checker)
Spybot S&D
Lavasoft Adaware

They're all free. Also make sure your firewall is switched on and working, by visiting www.grc.com and using the shieldsup pages.

>> Edited by Parrot of Doom on Tuesday 24th January 17:16

[minimax]

TheLemming said:

Looks ok to me as well. You may have picked up something less than legit somehow thats hijacking your browser. What makes you think thats happening? Ie what looks wrong on the linked BBC page?

the problem i'm getting is that if I clink on the link I posted above I get a site that pretends to be the BBC news site ie it looks as if they've just redesigned it a little...when you look closer you see links to mortgages, loans and ipods and suchlike.

I will have a little search for the thread which someone posted the link which I clicked on in a minute or two...

[NiceCupOfTea]

Don't worry - use AVG and Spybot (and Ad-aware if you're really worried).

If it's that pesky CWS thing you'll need CWShredder.