Today one of my customer reported to me that two of his computers are infected by virus. When I asked what are the symptoms that made him think that his computers is infected by virus, he said there’s a text saying “Hacked by pokemon“. I find it funny because out of so many nicknames, a hacker actually chose “pokemon”! Anyway, I was eager to see what can this virus or trojan can do. Will it be as powerful as Brontok? Or will it be weak that I don’t even require anti-virus to remove it?
When I reached my customer’s place, he ran Internet Explorer, and the title bar did have an added text saying “Hacked by pokemon”.
I tried searching for this virus in Google and it’s not a popular virus because I couldn’t find much information about it. Even searching in Symantec’s website yield no results. Sorry as I couldn’t give you more information about this virus because when I was there, the virus was already removed using AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition.
The only problem is, the Anti-Virus didn’t restore back the Internet Explorer title bar text. Here’s how you can change Internet Explorer window title bar text.
Adding extra text in Internet Explorer window is not something new. I first saw this feature many many years ago when everyone was still using Internet Explorer 3! Follow the steps below to change your Internet Explorer window title bar text.
1. Go to Start -> Run
2. Type regedit and click OK.
3. Navigate to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
4. Right click, New and select String Value.
5. Type the string value as Window Title
6. Double click the Window Title and type the title you want in the value data.
To remove added text in Internet Explorer title bar, just delete the Window Title string value.
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It works good,thnks ray
Hi,
to change the IE window title or any another window you can use the windows API FindWindow And SetWindowText for more information visit the MSDN
Goode Luck
hi
thanks for ur information, but my computer doesn’t work
Hi Ramond
I appreciate your advice to get rid of nnwanted messsage on my IE title bar. Was it a harmful virus?
It was extremly helpful.
kind regards
Kumara
hai, my mozilla’s title bar it is showing Hacked by Mozillaa
Please send the way to remove the title and set it as default
It is really useful page .
thanks!! but how to change the title bar in mozilla firefox?
gracias raymond!!!
thanks!!!it works!
Setzt es mal auf %s , hat einen lustigen Seiteneffekt…
mew bekommt man nur wenn ihr top vier durch habt dann musst ihr zuzm professor lind gehen der gebt dann ein ei dadrin ist ein togepi wenn der sich zum togetik enwikilt dann geht ihr zum avavvavaffhsd city und redet mit allem mänern wsennn ein man sagt puuuffffff dann kommt mew raus :D:D
raymon a mi sale algo parecido con un mje asi en la barra de IE :
salut, c´est moi RATIBE si vous besoins de L\\\’aide Voici Mon e-mail. Ratibe_2007@ yahoo.fr
eh hecho lo q propones y naa sigue igual no cambia nada. Quisiera que me des ottra posible solucion para cambair titulo de IE ya q he probado yno me funciona oajala y tpuedas comunikar ok grcias!!
raymon a mi sale algo parecido con un mje asi en la barra de IE :
salut, c´est moi RATIBE si vous besoins de L\’aide Voici Mon e-mail. Ratibe_2007@yahoo.fr
eh hecho lo q propones y naa sigue igual no cambia nada. Quisiera que me des ottra posible solucion para cambair titulo de IE ya q he probado yno me funciona oajala y tpuedas comunikar ok grcias!!
This is simply awesome
thanks… seriously thanks… i really tot that it was a virus.. but if it is do.. pls someone notify me.. it gave me a cracking head to remove it out! sickening…
thanks so much to the blog owner… great help!
Thnx. I was thought tht is a Virus.
Muchas gracias por la informacion, hace 2 dias que tenia la barra secuestrada jejeje
Thanks it worked great
thanks a lot i made it!!!!!!
Thanks for this info, I was really wondering how to remove that silly message.
Thanks Raymond for U R help
yo lo e probado en IE7 con xp y funciono sin problemas, entre a regedit , cree el valor le puse nombre y ya !
I have a friend with Vista running IE7. Instead of a message that reads \\\”hacked by pokemon\\\” his title bar is in chinese instead of the english it should be. The rest of the text for the menus and page show up in english it is just the title bar in chinese. Any thoughts??
TQ Raymond..
The virus has now been replicated by some idiotic goons and given name such as -haha- & -len-.. all my classmates’s PCs & laptops were attacked by this annoying virus and we couldn’t figure out the effective way to clean it..
What I notice is, if you used Vista, the virus won’t be transferred into your system..
Ciao!
I try type regedit and click ok, but this command came out said that registry editing has been disabled by your administrator. How you can help me on this?
This is the method which even i used it. this is perfect, but it doesnt work for IE7. you got any idea for that as well??
Tahnk you my Friend
Greetings from Egypt
You’re all welcome :)
-:) Nice Blog!!!!!
-:)) Thanx for ur informations.
great. thanks Raymond…
Thank you Raymond
Hi, maybe u can try searching for Hacked by Godzilla instead. I believe it to be a similar virus as the Godzilla one changes the title bar text as well. Plus some other annoying stuff.