Re: Do I have a virus?

In article <1195064276.241261.107030@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Dave Fritzinger <dfritzin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Nov 14, 8:04 am, Jolly Roger <jollyro...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <1195063162.813448.217...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Dave Fritzinger <dfrit...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

So what happens if you *do* type the URL manually?

Essentially the same thing happens. When I try to go to "http://
washingtonpost.com", I first get the page shown in picture one, and am
then redirected to an under construction page (not the same one I
posted-this one looks as if it is from the Washington Post". When I
type in "www.nytimes.com", I get directed to the same page I posted,
but, by clicking on links, I can actually go to a page containing the
content I want, though it is not correctly built (i.e. does not look
like a NY Times page) and contains the yellow boxes with "Click me"
all over the place.

Ok. So do other computers on your network experience the same problem
with these web sites? If so, do you connect to the net through a
hardware router? Whose DNS do you use? Who is your ISP?

OK, here is a little more information. Whatever is going on, it
appears to be Mac specific, as I have connected through 2 different
PCs (both running XP), and the sites appeared normally. I then went to
another Mac that I haven't used in a couple weeks, and it does appear
when I try to go to the Washington Post website, under my account, and
under a guest account. On the guest account, the home page
(www.apple.com/startup) has also been hijacked (for lack of a better
word). Indeed, that same page has been hijacked on my computer.

All computers are part of the same LAN. All are on a Novell Netware
network, which is used to connect to a number of servers. Since this
is a business network, I don't know all the details. The local network
connects to the internet through the University of Hawaii LAN.

That could be because the Macs are using a different DNS server. Are the
Macs using the same DNS servers as the PCs?

You can see the DNS servers on the PCs with this command:

ipconfig /all

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