Browser Hijacked Help

[kgirl17]

It wasn't just yahoo.com. Others had the very same thing with google.com

[kaysesoze]

yahoo works fine for me, but i was having issues one AC forums last week.. when i would click a thread title it would give me some picture of some chick, or some weird writing on the screen in cursive...
but it hasnt happened in a while.

[JohnnyLicious]

yahoo works for me

i have most of those apps you guys listed.

like i said just do a factory reset and you should be fine.....

[kgirl17]

im not doing a factory reaset everytime someone doesnt know what to do. that's not how prolems get solved long term. besides. 've already posted how i resolved it. now i want to know WHY it happened. someone managed to hijack this puppy and that makes me VERY uncomfortable. resetting doesnt help learn what happened ... besides being a pain in the butt to reload ell kinds of stuff every time. been there done that already and did not like it.

btw, i did also post on a google page... they emailed they are investigating

(sorry .. I'm not so great on this little keyboard yet.)

[Swervo]

I haven't seen the same issue come up at all today, though I did learn that if I "Clear Data" for the browser from the applications settings, it wipes out all my bookmarks. Meh.

I'm hesitant to do the factory reset myself because I'd like to keep trying to collect any information I can from this. I'm wondering if I can set up a wireless network off one of my linux boxes and run wireshark on it so I can snoop on everything coming from the phone. Sure would be nice if I could just run wireshark on the phone, but I guess I can't have everything.

[WaterlooSunset]

I too just noticed this yesterday, which is when I think it started happening to most people. It was only happening on the Yahoo bookmark page for my phone. It happened once this morning at 8am but has not happened since then. My speculation is that they did something to fix it. My concern is first of all, the fact that it even happened. Secondly, was any information lifted from my phone? Passwords, etc.?

Also, the factory reset is clearly not good advice to fix this situation. I did that last night before ever even reading this board and it did nothing to rectify the problem.

Has anyone else noticed that the problem seems to have gone away today?

[NismoG35]

Someone needs to do a factory reset and see if that fixes the issue. Also as for the cause of this issue i wonder if it has to do with something the user picks up by visiting a shady website.
I hope this is not some type of spyware or malware that android is vulernable to. grrrr

[Vinodis]

C'mon guys!
It is your ISP's Servers which got hijacked. Why blame Android?!

[kirizzle]

Originally Posted by Vinodis

C'mon guys!
It is your ISP's Servers which got hijacked. Why blame Android?!

haha, maybe it was... but it's a huge security risk either way.

[benh57]

I doubt anything got 'hijacked'. It's probably just a bad popup window "ad" for anti-virus sw that interacts badly with the G1 browser. (ie, accidental)

I'd expect that from yahoo. However some people get this with google.com, which i would not expect.