possible "transient" hijack?

Earlier today, I logged onto the internet and tried going to hotmail.com (using Firefox). Initially, it looked like the right site was coming up (something about msn passport or something), but then at the last minute, "net.net" would come up instead. Tried it a few times, always with the same result. Hotmail.com opened up fine with IE. Figured I must be getting hijacked or something, so I rebooted, ran Hijack This, and when I went online to post the log, I thought I'd give hotmail another shot with Firefox -- lo and behold, hotmail.com came up fine this time.
Does anyone have an explanation for this? As far as I know, we've never accessed to net.net on this computer before. AdAware and Spybot runs came up clean. Is it possible for one's computer to be hijacked with one browser but not another one?

 

Hi Rebecca,

Maybe FireFox users will recognize net.net - in the Netscape/Mozilla section. Whether a "transient" hijack is possibe, maybe someone else knows, I've never experienced that.

Off topic: could you take a look at this thread http://www.windowsbbs.com/showthread.php?t=40014

Those ME users are missing this file vf32.vxd. Is it on your system?

Regards - Charles

 

Still don't know have any answer to my original question, but the problem hasn't come up again. Seems unlikely that it was a true hijack attempt, since net.net is a site still under construction, yet I can't figure out how/why each time I typed in "hotmail.com" while I was online that one time, I'd get redirected to net.net... Oh well, no harm done (that I can tell!).