I can not get a site with IE or Firefox, but I can get it when I click

[steppenwolf]

Any advice?

Thanks in advance.

[Gary2MBz]

I think maybe your Firefox Profile is corrupt. Export a copy of your bookmarks so you don't lose anything. To do this:

Go to the Bookmarks menu > Organize Bookmarks > Import and Backup > Export HTML. Next Step is to go to C:\Users\yournamehere\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox and delete everything in that folder. Then close it out and open Firefox normally and it should ask to import any bookmarks from IE or nothing like 1st time and it will be back up to normal. Try browsing and see if it works the way you couldn't do before. If all is well, go back to the bookmark manager and instead of clicking Export HTML at the end, click import and choose that file you saved when you exported.

As for IE, I haven't a clue sorry

[+BudMan MVC]

and what site are you trying to go to? Your sure you not just loading it from cache when you open the bookmark? Or maybe the URL in the bookmark is different than where you trying to go.

[AudioDope]

Do a virus/adware scan

This is a symptom of Virtumonde virus/adware, The same thing happened to me and i asked around IRC and no one found out what the problem was but i finally did a lot of virus scans with different apps and Virtumonde is pretty hard to remove

So do this, Don't remove virtumonde with a virus/adwaer scanner, google for virtumonde remover and use that to remove the virtumonde virus, and then run a virus scan/adware scan to remove other things. Virtumonde is really complex so wat happens is, antivirus/adware remove bits and pieces of it, adn after if u use the independent virtumonde remover it says ur not infected when you still are, So remove using Independent remover THEN use antivirus.

good luck tell us how it goes

[steppenwolf]

  BudMan said:

and what site are you trying to go to? Your sure you not just loading it from cache when you open the bookmark?

I am able to navigate around the site after I use the bookmark. When I type in the main site name, I get a message that the server my be down on 2 different browsers.

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Or maybe the URL in the bookmark is different than where you trying to go.

The bookmark is a thread in a page in the forum.

Thank you all for replying.

[steppenwolf]

  SimNet said:

Do a virus/adware scan

This is a symptom of Virtumonde virus/adware, The same thing happened to me and i asked around IRC and no one found out what the problem was but i finally did a lot of virus scans with different apps and Virtumonde is pretty hard to remove

So do this, Don't remove virtumonde with a virus/adwaer scanner, google for virtumonde remover and use that to remove the virtumonde virus, and then run a virus scan/adware scan to remove other things. Virtumonde is really complex so wat happens is, antivirus/adware remove bits and pieces of it, adn after if u use the independent virtumonde remover it says ur not infected when you still are, So remove using Independent remover THEN use antivirus.

good luck tell us how it goes

I ran combofix, which is supposed to get rid of virtumonde. I then had a black desktop. I then ran Nod32. It said that I have no threats. I tried putting a wallpaper on my desktop. it did not work. I did a system restore. I still have a black desktop. I still can not put a wallpaper on it. Any advice?

Thanks for trying.