I don’t even remember visiting the site but somehow it has infiltrated my comp. First it changed my home page, easy enough to fix, but now it seems that whenever i should be getting a 404 error i get redirected to lop.com. I checked my startup folder, and msconfig startup, and i ran adaware spyware finder, and antivirus, and i can’t rid of this thing. Please help.
—If i was prez, the first thing i’d do is put a $10k first offense fine for spamming, $100k for second, and lethal injection on the third strike.
I ran across a virus that did just that - norton caught it. DOn’t remember what it’s called.
There are a lot of references to this on Usenet. You can search for them at http://groups.google.com .
The most recent reference is this thread: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&th=3c6dfa9aad2c1f1b&rnum=1
A little more on the virus - it was more like a scripting or javascript item - basically just going to the web site activated it if your security settings were not stopping it.
I had the same problem and corrected it by doing this:
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I went through my registry using the search function and deleted or changed all references to lop.com
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I used the find files funtcion to find all the files that were altered by the javascript and deleted or replaced them. When you open Internet Explorer, you will find that lop.com changed the name and destinations of many of your bookmarks. Use the find file function to search for the altered favorites and find the exact time they were changed (i.e. 3/18/02 4:29 PM). I then searched through all the files that were altered at this exact time and deleted or altered them to purge my PC of this scourge.
I know there is probably an easier way, but I was pissed at the time and did it the brute force overkill way. 
P.S. It would be a good idea to make a back-up of your registry if you decide to start fiddling with it.
cainxinth- when you ran AdAware did you do a ‘deep scan’ of the entire hard drive? Default is for adaware to only do a ‘quick scan’. You have to specify ‘deepcan’ if that’s what you want. Also, do you have the latest version of adaware?
Of course I meant ‘deep scan’, not ‘deepcan’.
Newly updated versions of Mcafee, Adaware, and The Cleaner came up empty. But I lurked rowrrbazzle’s link and found that lop.com has a piece of software that will remove part of its presence on your computer. I also learned to add lop to my restricted sites list in ie. And finally i took Novus Opiate’s advice and changed every reference of lop.com in my registry to google.com. Thank you all for your advice, i finally got the bastard.
Seriously though, how can lop.com expect to gain users by treating them like this? Could anyone find it charming that some website has hijacked their computer? It would be like if the Hilton was grabbing people off the street as they walked by, tattooed a big H on their foreheads, tossed them in a room, and slipped a bill under the door as they locked it. Well, maybe its not quite that bad, but its equally stupid.
W00t! Glad to hear that. I know the lop.com browser hijack was a pain in the arse for me.
Can I have “Software I Would Never Run on My Computer” for $800, Alex?
Novus
I’d like to add that, based on reading this thread, I checked my IE security settings and found one (and only one) entry in my Trusted sites list – free.aol.com – except I don’t use AOL. I removed the entry and won’t flame them here, but thought you guys might want to know that that’s another place where companies may force themselves into your computer.