I was using my second pc today and I noticed that every time I restart windows, this strange site flipdummie.com comes up as the home page on internet explorer 7. Even if I change it back to the default msn.com home page if I restart the pc it goes back to flipdummie. It will be a shame if I have to reinstall windows over this as I just did 2 days ago. I ran adaware, spybot, and norton antivirus and still no luck.

Please run the following scans and post their logs. Please download Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware from one of these sites: MalwareBytes1 MalwareBytes2 1. Double Click mbam-setup.exe to install the application. 2. Make sure a checkmark is placed next to Update Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware and Launch Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware, then click Finish. 3. If an update is found, it will download and install the latest version. 4. Once the program has loaded, select "Perform Quick Scan", then click Scan. The scan may take some time to finish,so please be patient. 5. When the scan is complete, click OK, then Show Results to view the results. 6. Make sure that everything found is checked, and click Remove Selected. 7. When disinfection is completed, a log will open in Notepad and you may be prompted to Restart. If MBAM encounters a file that is difficult to remove,you will be presented with 1 of 2 prompts,click OK to either and let MBAM proceed with the disinfection process,if asked to restart the computer,please do so immediately. 8. The log is automatically saved by MBAM and can be viewed by clicking the Logs tab in MBAM. 9. Copy&Paste the entire report in your next reply. Please download and install the latest version of HijackThis v2.0.2: Download the "HijackThis" Installer from this link: Hijack This 1. Save " HJTInstall.exe" to your desktop. 2. Double click on HJTInstall.exe to run the program. 3. By default it will install to C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\HijackThis. 4. Accept the license agreement by clicking the "I Accept" button. 5.Click on the "Do a system scan and save a log file" button. It will scan and then ask you to save the log. 6. Click "Save log" to save the log file and then the log will open in Notepad. 7. Click on "Edit > Select All" then click on "Edit > Copy" to copy the entire contents of the log. 8. Paste the log in your next reply. 9. Do NOT have HijackThis fix anything yet! Most of what it finds will be harmless or even required.

Highjack this is good stuff. One other sugestion I did not see mentioned is SMitfraudfix.exe It should be ran in safe mode.

download winpatrol at this address: http://www.winpatrol.com/download.html and find out what is running on your PC. I would also suggest Ccleaner slim (no toolbar) to clean out the excess junk on your PC safely Some HELP in posting on Computing.net plus free progs and instructions Cheers

I have the same problem. I tried Spybot , but doesn't work for that. I change windows XP registry , and still not working. It all started went I install a new software. I unistall the software and still doens't work. Help ! 411