Yesterday, something strange happened. For some reason, when I went to Gmail, it would redirect me through ora.3168a.com to a garbled web page. I thought that I had contracted a virus or spyware, so I used Norton Antivirus and Lavasoft Ad-Aware to check, but found nothing. I tried to check Gmail with Internet Explorer, and it would also cause the same problem. I then cleared out the cache and history, and tried to access Gmail but I still got the garbled web page. This really puzzled me, so I tried to isolate the problem if it was a machine problem, by going to another computer and accessing Gmail from there. On another laptop, it was fine. Oh by the way, I was using Mozilla Firefox browser. But then when I went to another computer in the house, with Gmail, I still got the same redirect. What was worse was that not even Gmail but other web sites were redirecting through ora.3168a.com. Doing a Google search on ora.3168a.com resulted in a list of malicious and spam web sites of which ora.3168a.com was on the list.
I found out that another person also had the same problem as well, but apparently he was able to solve it by going through some several reboots and following some removal instructions translated from Japanese. I didn't do that, but today it seems like I can read Gmail now. It's kinda scary though what happened.
2 comments:
I am having the same problem, could you post what you did to remove it, i'm really scared
my macbook, as well as my girlfriend's dell laptop, are both experiencing the same problem...can't check my gmail, and numerous other webpages appear as only garbled text. what's wrong? do you know how i can fix it?
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