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Browser Hijack HELP
Name: ceilingfan1978 Date: February 27, 2004 at 03:25:38 Pacific OS: Windows ME CPU/Ram: 63mb
Comment:
Help, I've been hijacked, My internet explorer keeps on setting it self to a different home page every 1 or 2 days, and when it goes to that page, it opens the cd roms and says something about controling my computer. I've been hijacked before. Ad-aware and spybot aren't fixing this problem. Ad-aware finds it as a possible hijack and takes it out, but it still keeps on coming back every few days, I updated ad-aware, and spybot does not have any updates. but still doesn't work...Please help....Adam
Name: Petit Jean Date: February 27, 2004 at 07:33:15 Pacific
Reply:
Read this about IE hijacking: http://www.geekgirls.com/net_hijacked.htm Downloads: http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~ehowes/resource.htm#iespyad http://www.pjwalczak.com/spguard/ http://jasons-toolbox.sectorlink.org/programs.asp?Program=Script%20Sentry Antivirus from dos for added protection.Update regularly and run from time to time.F-prot is updated weekly or more often these days. http://computing.net/windows95/wwwboard/forum/156020.html Read response number 4.F-prot antivirus is effective to the point of correcting two infections on a single file and restoring the files to their original condition.Backdoor and other malware are deleted. Good luck.
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Response Number 2
Name: lancetre Date: February 27, 2004 at 17:50:08 Pacific
Reply:
Had similar problem last week. Was directed to here
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4086.html
and problem solved.
Good luck
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Response Number 3
Name: Ed in Texas. Date: February 28, 2004 at 00:39:38 Pacific
Reply:
ceilingfan1978, another thing to try, (may not help, can't hurt) is to DISABLE RESTORE, scan & fix again, re-enable restore. Maybe your nasty is hiding in there and being rewritten??? HTH. Ed in Texas.
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