WP IE Browser hijacked????

Athinakap

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Hi guys,
Need some help. The last couple of days i use my ie browser and when i google it, it find's a site, and once i enter that site my browser then gets redirected to either a porn site or a site saying that my phone's been infected. i tried to press back but sometimes is unresponsive. Read some articles saying to open a new tab but i don't want to do that all the time. Is there a shortcut around this??
Second, should i use google or Biing
Third and lastly, this redirecting also happens on my android chrome browser

Thanks for any advise
 

pankaj981

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Hopefully all this experience is on a Windows Phone. If yes then be rest assured, Windows Phone does not have a virus, yet. You can try cleaning your browser cache and see if it helps. Secondly a search engine preference is completely subjective. I use Google because it gets the job done soon. Or may be i never got used to Bing :-/
 

Harrie-S

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Did you already go in IE > 3 dots ... > settings > advanced settings > and use SmartScreen filter and block cookies.
 

cjmacbeth

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I've had the same problem for the couple of days on my 820. Normally redirecting me to a page saying my battery is damaged and I need to install an app to fix it (although said app is only available on android). I blocked cookies, deleted tabs and history, tried using bing and google, soft reset and the problem didn't stop.
What does work though is if you hit the cross in the address bar as soon as you see it change to the redirected website. It stops it from loading the page and seems to get rid of the problem for a while.
Also clicking the link just opens the store where it turns up no search result for the app (surprise surprise) which also seems to quell the issue for while.
 

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I'd hardly count the BBC and lonely planet as sketchy websites. Although in my case I am using WiFi of a questionable source (in rural Thailand). Don't know whether its possible for that to be my problem.
 

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I'd hardly count the BBC and lonely planet as sketchy websites. Although in my case I am using WiFi of a questionable source (in rural Thailand). Don't know whether its possible for that to be my problem.

Somebody must have set up a sketchy network then, regardless of what you're using. (and redirection is not the only danger of this)
 

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It seems odd though that its only started happening in the last two or three days and I've been using the network for nearly two weeks.
Is it also just coincidence that someone else is experiencing almost exactly the same problem at exactly the same time?
 

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It seems odd though that its only started happening in the last two or three days and I've been using the network for nearly two weeks.
Is it also just coincidence that someone else is experiencing almost exactly the same problem at exactly the same time?

Then it REALLY IS a sketchy network. Stay the heck outta it ASAP.
 

Kaushik Banerjee

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There doesn't seem to be a problem with either your android or windows device, its the website which you are googling, maybe domain change of site, or google misinterpreting it for some other site...whatever it is....but rest assured your device is safe and you better find and alternative website...and change the network....and check whether this happens again!
 

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Windows Phone doesn't have malware issues, so you didn't have a virus or anything on your phone that is causing the problem.

If you are connecting to a Wi-Fi network, it is easy for the network's owner to modify DNS, the Internet's URL lookup service, to point legitimate webpage URLs to sketchy sites. The very reason that person left the network open may have been to try to redirect traffic to illegitimate sites.
 

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either cookie malware (happens to every single browser, it override read of the cookie and set code to redirect to other page), or there's a hacker in your connected Wi-Fi. They could edit the headers of your browser, and set it always to connect to 1 website, and whatever you go, it will redirect to that site only (dont input anything when this happen, hackers can see what you have typed)
 

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I have the same problem. Sometimes on Windows Central I get stupid advert pop upwp_ss_20150118_0001.png
I Clear the cache, still get this annoying pop up
never happened on WP 8 IE10
 
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rockstarzzz

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Hi guys,
Need some help. The last couple of days i use my ie browser and when i google it, it find's a site, and once i enter that site my browser then gets redirected to either a porn site or a site saying that my phone's been infected. i tried to press back but sometimes is unresponsive. Read some articles saying to open a new tab but i don't want to do that all the time. Is there a shortcut around this??
Second, should i use google or Biing
Third and lastly, this redirecting also happens on my android chrome browser

Thanks for any advise

​Can we see some screenshots, please?
 

envio

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Sounds very much to me that the WiFi access point has something to answer for. It's quite easy for legitimate DNS lookups to be redirected. I'd be amazed if the phone itself has been compromised in some way. One way to check would be to empty any browser cache including search results, turn off WiFi and if possible, try using some mobile data and see it produces the same dodgy results.
 

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