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Name: David
Date: November 18, 2003 at 14:18:01 Pacific
OS: WIN XP
CPU/Ram: P3 933/256 MB
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Hi,

I believe I got infected by some kind of virus. My start homepage for IE is set to some kind of search site. When I open the IE options, it will show that I can't modify the start page. Meaning that I can't even touch it. That section is disabled as if it was unchecked hence as if it was not available, for example.

There were some errors with the ATL70.dll, then there was that msoffice.hta thing, and I deleted it, but didn't seem to change anything.

In general, it seems as if I lost control of administrator of computer, and simply became a guest user.

Does anyone know the error?

Thank you,

David



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Response Number 1
Name: Kevin The Tech Dude
Date: November 18, 2003 at 14:20:49 Pacific
Reply:

Read Me

KTTD



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Response Number 2
Name: David
Date: November 18, 2003 at 20:05:19 Pacific
Reply:

Hey,

sorry about that, I did already use spy bot (and the updated one) to try to get rid of those, but it didn't work.

David


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Response Number 3
Name: cpm
Date: November 19, 2003 at 07:34:35 Pacific
Reply:

hi david

msoffice.hta./searchdot.net.....stinks of coolwebsearch
run cwshredder from here

http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/


good luck



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Response Number 4
Name: David
Date: November 19, 2003 at 19:31:46 Pacific
Reply:

Hey Kevin and CPM,

thanks for the advice,

now i can change the home page directly from the IE properties, and the whole annoying hijak thing is gone!

Thanks again,

David


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