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TICKET ARCHIVE -> DNS redirector on Mac OS X??? Help

sleepsafe - Apr 23, 2008 - 10:08 pm

I am a fairly new Mac user. only a few months. I'll be the very first to admit I don't know much about my Mac Book yet, but after using Windows for as long as I can remember I need to get a little experience under my belt and I'm gonna be ok

Recently when using the Yahoo and sometimes Google search functions something unusual happens. I type the subject in the search bar "Apple Computers"and a list of sites comes up. I select one and click on it, expecting for example to go to the site store.apple.com/macbook. Instead I get a momentary blank page with a small oval button in the top left corner that says continue. Immediately I am redirected to another site. The examples here were real, I was redirected to this page http://ypng.infospace.com/_1_23T2URK...6R%253DN&25660 or this page http://ypng.infospace.com/_1_23T2URK...6R%253DN&25660

Or a host of others. I downloaded the trial version of Macscan and it said I had a DNS redirector. I deleted it and this is still happening

Help I want my Mac back!!!

Serenak - Apr 25, 2008 - 6:31 pm

Hello Dennis

thanks for choosing macosx.com and I will try to assist you

first and best thing download the free DNSChanger Removal tool from the MacScan site here http://www.dnschanger.com/ - that should remove the offending trojan if you have it...

Also it won't hurt to use OnyX or Cocktail, YASU, Xupport (or any other such tool that allows the cleaning of caches, running Cron etc) and run a full battery of housecleaning in particular pay attention to cleaning/removing internet caches and cookies.

See what happens after that.