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how to remove entry in user.dat
Name: zxDaveM Date: October 18, 2003 at 08:51:52 Pacific OS: Windows ME CPU/Ram: 800MHz Celeron, with 128M
Comment:
hi, my browser keeps coming up with some rogue homepage (cool-homepage.com/) instead og google, which I want. I change this under Internet options, and in regedit, but after a couple of times opening IE, it pops up again. I searched for text entries on the whole of C:\ and the only entry I found was in USER.DAT - but editing that, caused the system to fail to load properly such that it restated from a 'restore' copy I assume. So, any idea anyone, of how to get rid of this entry for good?
Name: wawadave Date: October 18, 2003 at 19:14:06 Pacific
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hello you have a home page hijacker. d/l spybot search and destroy,update it,run it. and d/l ad-ware do the same after doing above and if it dont fix it d/l hijack this and copr paste the log in security virus forum. state what you have done so far when doing so.
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Response Number 2
Name: zxDaveM Date: October 19, 2003 at 09:58:18 Pacific
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Thanks for that - most helpful. Will get downloading now...
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Response Number 3
Name: RBB Date: October 23, 2003 at 17:16:20 Pacific
Reply:
Use StartPage Guard. software@pjwalczak.com Itworks & it's Free.
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