Browser Hijacked Help

[dirtiework]

damn it! this is happening to me too and I hardly ever surf on my g1 what the eff!

[kgirl17]

I'm on my third call to tmobile support (they keep disconnecting me). So far the response is mostly been -- reset the phone and it's not our problem. THey are opening a trouble ticket for their engineers to research.

[xdrunk69]

I think thats what it is. I just disconnected from Edge and hooked into my wifi. I then cleared all the data on the browser and now I can get to Yahoo.

[goatwood]

I have this same problem too (when trying to connect to the main Yahoo website of www.yahoo.com). However, since I only to check my e-mail, I tried typing in the Yahoo mail address (mail.yahoo.com) and it was smooth sailing after that. So, I have that bookmarked as my Yahoo mail url now and unless you really need to check Yahoo for news or there lame video of the day, then just do what I did for e-mail. Sweet! It does kind of suck though that there is some issue with Yahoo not being able to protect or encrypt their main website url though. I'm out!

[kgirl17]

FYI - UpVise Pro and CB Reversi are the last things I've downloaded in the past few days. Everything else I've had for a couple of weeks, but include anycut, video player, taskswitcher, shopsavvy, oi notepad, ringdroid, solitaire, restaurant, coloroid, flashlight, aknotepad, and zombie, run!

[kgirl17]

xdrunk - I tried clearing everything as well, but it wasn't very long before the problem popped back up. I did change my homepage for now, and did clear out all the cookies, cache, passwords, etc etc off the phone. But yahoo.com is still messed up for me, altho I can use google.com. Tmobile escalated my call into a ticket to engineering -- but they kept telling me I am the only one who has called so I'm not sure how serious they are taking it.
YOU GUYS SHOULD ALL CALL TMOBILE TOO, then maybe they'll realize there is a problem.

[JohnnyLicious]

u should just do a factory reset and that should fix your problem.

[Swervo]

Hi folks, I'm the guy who posted the screenshots and such over on T-Mobile's forum, figured I'd post here too.

Right off the bat, figured I'd post what I've installed so far:
AK Notepad
aLastFM Player
Android File Manager
Any Cut
aPlayer
aReader
Bartender
Brain Genius Deluxe (Edit: Forgot this one, shows up as com.glu.android.bgd in settings)
Cinema
Compare Everywhere
ConnectBot
PAC-MAN
Panoramio
Radar
ShopSavvy
Solitaire
Tetroid
TuneWiki
Twisty
WikiMobile

None of these have been installed in the past 4 or 5 days, and the problem just started happening tonight. As mentioned in the other thread, I've had the ddms debugger hooked up and haven't seen anything too strange, though I also can't look at a process listing with the debugger. Nothing weird showing up in messages though.

I was just able to get it to happen using Wi-Fi rather than 3G, here's what shows up in my router's log:

[ALLOW: www.google.com] Source: 10.0.0.10 Sunday, 23 Nov 2008 22:51:52
[ALLOW: s86.cnzz.com] Source: 10.0.0.10 Sunday, 23 Nov 2008 22:51:52
[ALLOW: web.51.la] Source: 10.0.0.10 Sunday, 23 Nov 2008 22:51:53
[ALLOW: 222.77.187.78] Source: 10.0.0.10 Sunday, 23 Nov 2008 22:51:56

I can't think of any other tests to run right now to try to narrow it down. I'll also give a call to T-Mobile, I haven't gotten much of a response over on their support forums.

Edit again: Also realized that I may have had the malware version cached when I switched over to Wifi. I've cleared cache and will try again in 15-20 minutes and see if I can get it to happen again.

Final edit: I haven't had it happen again since clearing the cache and using Wi-Fi, going to try again in the morning.

[kgirl17]

Hey Servo. Am on the g1 now. Again cleared cache etc but this time switched to wifi
b4 starting yahoo,com. This seems to make a difference. Have turned the g1 off and back on and switched back to edge with no problems. Not yet tried again with 3g. Whatcha think about that? Btw. I gave your other posts url to tmobile last nite.... until I did they didn't seem to believe there was a problem. Wiping the phone should NNOT be the 1st response to things! Thx 4 the info.!

[shuko]

Post your firmware version too! Are you guys up to RC30?