I have been hijacked by the home search assistant. When i try to remove the programs I get the message 'unable to open looking-for' I have tried hijack this and other suggestions with no luck. Can any body help me. This thing just keeps returning right after I delete it. Kelly

http://looking-for.cc/uninstall/HomeSearchAssistant.exe

yep that's what I keep getting. any suggestions Kelly

Not sure if you've tried it yet, but this removal utility may help.

I tried it and it worked for a second. This little buger won't go away. It resets itself almost immediatly. Thanks for the tip though. Kelly

Here's a solution that works! http://www.pchell.com/support/onlythebest.shtml I worked on the Home Search Assistant for 20+ hours and it kept coming back, but the secret to the procedure listed on the above link, is that you put your computer in safe mode, and shut down a couple of services before doing the about blaster and hijack this. Apparently the hijacker actually creates or uses a windows server on top of all of those dat files, dll files, registry entries, and IE changes. It's really the worst thing I've ever seen for a marketting trojan. so just go to the above link, and follow the instructions to the letter. You'll be alright. Alex