Not sure what this website just did to my system

[Creig]

I was using Google to search for reviews on XTrac mouse pads and clicked on the Google "Cached" link to the SubZeroTech website. When the page came up my system gave me the


System Settings Change

You must restart your system before the new settings will take effect.

Do you want to restart your computer now?



Crap!! I was never asked if I wanted to install or change anything! WTH did this site do to my system? The cached Google link that gave me this is http://216.239.37.104/search?q=cache:5TKODjkvemEJ:www.subzerotech.com/index/module/sz_reviews_display/id/159/page/1+XTrac+Limited+Zoom+review&hl=en&ie=UTF-8. BE CAREFUL IF YOU DECIDE TO OPEN IT! I have NO idea what it changed/added or if there's now a backdoor or virus on my system. The main SubZeroTech link for this page which is http://www.subzerotech.com/index/module/sz_reviews_display/id/159/page/1 seems to be down. In fact, the whole site seem to be down. Were they hacked and a backdoor/virus script inserted?

I'd appreciate it if one of the more websavvy ATers could take a peek at the cached site and see if they could spot what happened. I am NOT going to reboot my system until I find out WTH is going on.

 

[Creig]

It appears to attempt to contact www.burstnet.com for an ad banner, then it tries hitting 127.0.0.1 (not sure why it's pinging my own machine) then it appears to try to do something with my D: drive (windows drive) but it flashes by too quickly for me to see for sure.

 

[Creig]

Humph, so much for the "lets-not-reboot-until-we-figure-out-what-just-happened" theory. Machine locked up. So booted into safe mode, did a restore from yesterday and am now running AVG anti-virus with latest definitions to see if it finds anything.