If you don't want to believe the advice the folks here give you, fine.

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I think it's rather rude for someone to come in and ask for help and then not accept any of it when they're all suggesting the same things. I could understand if everyone was saying something entirely different - or if you were positive that you knew more than most the people who'd posted . . . Because I have seen many instances of situations such as those in all the different forums. However, what everyone is suggesting to you is perfectly legitimate . . . I have not used HijackThis, so I can't say anything for or against it, but I CAN give my piece on AdAware and Spybot Search & Destroy. I personally LOVE Spybot S&D, AdAware is OK but more for the intermediate or novice user who just needs something they can click click click and fix all. Lastly, when you said, "Also they are a pain becuase if you want to have multiple instances of internet explorer you need to push certain buttons to allow ie to open since the programs will think another ie instance is a pop up." - you are confusing Adware/Spyware removal programs with pop-up stoppers. AdAware and Spybot S&D are NOT pop-up stoppers. They can help to limit popups that are caused by spyware on your computer, but they are not pop-up stoppers in the typical sense. Besides, even with pop-up stoppers, you usually just hold "CTRL" and *voila* you can see pop-ups again.

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Spyware Blaster (already mentioned) is also fine but simply "protects you" from malware. It doesn't remove malware or run in the background, so you still need to clear out the nasties before installing Spyware Blaster. I agree that the malware finders/removers mentioned are spyware free. They should not interfere with anything but even if they did you could always uninstall them once they have done their job. Better than being stuck with your problem or spending many happy hours in the registry and/or trying to find rogue files. Derek

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I ran into the same problem you did Eric and found a nifty website that tells you how to clean it. It also provides a tool call CWS Shredder, which stripped out this malware and gave me back my IE. http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html The tool can be found at this website: http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/cwshredder.zip I hope you have the same results I did. TOT

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The Other Tech CWShredder is fine but it only relates to a specific malware. If eric has that particular one then it will do the trick. The other software mentioned is more generalised. Derek

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downloaded spybot s&s and ht...so far they work great and i havent gotten my homepage changed, im also getting fewer pop ups and no pop ups from certain sites i use to get them from...thanks :o) -eric

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Thanks for popping back, hope it stays good. Consider Spyware Blaster too - "in theory" it should make SpyBot (and Ad-Aware) redundant because it prevents the nasties getting through in the first place. Derek

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Hey guys, I having the same problem with my ie homepage getting automatically reset to http://default-homepage-network.com/start.cgi?c001 which hypes something called "Spy Wiper". I already have adaware,Spybot, and Hijack This installed and run them regularly. I also ran CWShredder. None of them found/fixed the problem. Any other ideas??? Donna

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Post your HijackThis! log (you'd do better if you started your own post) or check out to see if you have the following entry: R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page = http://default-homepage-network.com/start.cgi?c001 Choose 'Fix checked', and remove. Close all IE windows and while offline reset home page in IE Tools>Internet Options. Next, in the Security tab enter the following to 'restricted': default-homepage-network.com Clear temporary Internet files, cookies, and history. Reboot.

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Thank you SO much! I did everything you suggested and so far so good. Hopefully this did the trick. Donna

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Good show!! If you have any problems, post back. PS You are entitled to your own post. ;-)

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