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    System infected by agressive Activex

    Yesterday I got a popup on my screen and an error message telling me I had a system failure regarding a connection error. It seems that an E-mail I have opened must have contained a hidden and agressive activex file that continually tries to connect me to this site and my Norton Firewall stops it.

    I can find my way around a computer pretty well but this thing has me stumped and I'm sure I'm not the first person to get this and maybe someone has already found the solution. No, I didn't visit any porn sites and no I have no idea where it came from other than my guess that it might have been burried in an e-mail or how it got through Norton VirusScan and Norton Firewall. I didn't download anything and really would love to meet the guy that wrote this software. Angry on my part is an under-statement!

    The web site that this software tries to access is:

    ***WARNING DO NOT ACCIDENTLY GET YOURSELF INFECTED BY CLEANING UP THIS ADDRESS AND CLICKING ON IT***

    ****http://sergey7.offshoreclicks.com/di...p?u=sergey7***

    Any help anyone can give me in removing the hidden software from my system would be greatly appreciated. I have run Norton and AdAware and both come up clean. I removed all activex controls I can find but there are two that are hidden and I can't find them.
    Last edited by Mechanic; 06-12-2003 at 12:55 PM.

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