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- Austin, Texas
- D-Nitrate / GTP_DNitrate
OK, so I noticed that today, pages in GTP were taking a long time to load, and then I also was hearing an extra "click" which should only happen after clicking on a link that opens a new pages.
Watching the "Status bar closely, which tells you exactly the URL you are trying to load, it goes from this:
then seems to get stuck, even though the correct page is loaded, then it makes that click sound and shows this in the status bar:
Although, it never effects the page I was loading, other than slowing it down. It still apears like everything is normal... but it isn't:
When I hit the back button on the browser, instead of going back one page in GTP, it loads that same mysterious URL add-on as seen in the status bar before:
http://dg.specificclick.net/?u=http://(what ever the URL address is of the page in GTP I had just linked to)
The only way to go back is to click on the "recent history" drop down window and select the page just below the strange dg.specificclick.net page... which even if I select it, it doesn't take me anywhere. Here is a picture of the drop down window with that suspicious page listed in it:
Afterwards though, I noticed something was hijacking my processor power as my laptop fan started kicking it in high gear. Immediately shot everything off, Rebooted in safe mode. Did full virus, spyware and mallware scans using the latest versions of Avast!, Spybot, and Ad-Aware.
While the virus scan came out clean, this was not the case with the spyware and mallware scans.
After cleaning everything up, and rebooting, I tried other websites to see make sure the problem was not my browser or computer. After linking to several sites, everything appeared to be normal, and never saw that odd dg.specificclick.net pop-up in the status bar... that was until I went back to GTP pages... and bang! They immediately popped up in the status bar again!
I again shut everything off, and did another series of scans, and sure enough, what ever that dg.specificclick.net is, it is adding malicious data onto my PC, but it is only happening when I am clicking on pages in GTP.
Is this a currently known issue, and if not, does anyone have any ideas on what's gong on and how to resolve this?
Thanks!
Watching the "Status bar closely, which tells you exactly the URL you are trying to load, it goes from this:
then seems to get stuck, even though the correct page is loaded, then it makes that click sound and shows this in the status bar:
Although, it never effects the page I was loading, other than slowing it down. It still apears like everything is normal... but it isn't:
When I hit the back button on the browser, instead of going back one page in GTP, it loads that same mysterious URL add-on as seen in the status bar before:
http://dg.specificclick.net/?u=http://(what ever the URL address is of the page in GTP I had just linked to)
The only way to go back is to click on the "recent history" drop down window and select the page just below the strange dg.specificclick.net page... which even if I select it, it doesn't take me anywhere. Here is a picture of the drop down window with that suspicious page listed in it:
Afterwards though, I noticed something was hijacking my processor power as my laptop fan started kicking it in high gear. Immediately shot everything off, Rebooted in safe mode. Did full virus, spyware and mallware scans using the latest versions of Avast!, Spybot, and Ad-Aware.
While the virus scan came out clean, this was not the case with the spyware and mallware scans.
After cleaning everything up, and rebooting, I tried other websites to see make sure the problem was not my browser or computer. After linking to several sites, everything appeared to be normal, and never saw that odd dg.specificclick.net pop-up in the status bar... that was until I went back to GTP pages... and bang! They immediately popped up in the status bar again!
I again shut everything off, and did another series of scans, and sure enough, what ever that dg.specificclick.net is, it is adding malicious data onto my PC, but it is only happening when I am clicking on pages in GTP.
Is this a currently known issue, and if not, does anyone have any ideas on what's gong on and how to resolve this?
Thanks!
