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Opera 9, hijacked?
For the first time I have a problem with Opera and I think it's a hijack problem.If this is the wrong forum I am sorry - tried a search for hijack, also in all forums and knowledge base ..
I run Opera9 (I would like to avoid upgrading for a while since I read lots of hegative comments about 10.5x and to be honest am not quite sure how to bring old settings, passwords etc. over to the new version).
I used this URL as homepage
http://www.thedemonsjumble.com.
If I now click on the homepage icon the addressbar shows
http://www.thedemonsjumble.com/cgi-bin/genpage?page=javamain
and of course a different website.
In preferences there is no change in the URL though.
Checked original URL in Firefox, no problem. Had a look at the index and htaccess file on server, seems fine.
If I enter the URL manually in Opera the same problem occurs.
So, it looks like browser hijacking, right?
Or could it be something different?
Any ideas for an easy solution?
I am quite helpless with hijackthis and co.
Nothing else is working wrong, just this URL.
OS is Windows XP.
Virus-scan is McAfee who reported no problem in the last months.
I used this URL as homepage
http://www.thedemonsjumble.com.
If I now click on the homepage icon the addressbar shows
http://www.thedemonsjumble.com/cgi-bin/genpage?page=javamain
and of course a different website.
That's not a different website/domain. It's a different webpage created a different way by the webmaster of that site. Just updated using scripting instead of however they did it before
That's not a different website/domain. It's a different webpage created a different way by the webmaster of that site. Just updated using scripting instead of however they did it before
Um, I am the owner of that domain and site and I have certainly not changed anything.
Plus other people (on other computers) can call up the site as it is supposed to, so no, I don't think the account has been hacked.
But Firefox has the same problem so spyware/trojans is probably the answer.
Thanks anyway.
update is inevitable but so far vs.9 has worked fine and as I said I read lots of negative comments about vs. 10
there's lots of negative comments about every version of every software. just for the simple reason that only people with problems come to help-forums
plus am not quite sure how to upgrade without loosing passwords or settings
just choose the "update" option in the installer
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