Browser Hijack Alert - With a Positive Outcome!

bytribe82

596 followers

11 years ago

Ah, the plans of mice and men! I had the best intentions to spend the better part of today doing some reconstruction work on my website. Rethinking whether certain pages would not be better off as posts; playing around with different Wordpress themes; reviewing past posts for grammatical errors. All of the fun stuff that we are all quite familiar with.

In the midst of all of this activity, as I am going back and forth between my site and Google, I notice that Google is acting very weird; it seems like my keyboard is getting hijacked. What I am typing is NOT what is appearing on the screen. Multiple tabs keep on opening up; it makes it virtually impossible to work or get anything done. I spent the better part of 2 to 3 hours troubleshooting the problem.

Downloading and running various anti-malware programs; un-installing and re-installing browsers.....aaaaaargh. The problem is like a whack a mole it keeps popping back up.

The final solution; the old tried and true last resort....MODEM RESET. That worked like a champ. I don't know what wicked genius came up with this nasty little bug, but if it gets in your system, I suggest you do what I did and ultimately you will have to do a modem rest.

Why someone who is smart enough to figure out how to write the code to do something as tricky as that, does not apply their brain power to make a legitimate buck is beyond my understanding......