Homepage hijack ,again
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Homepage hijack ,again
Another dammed search engine has instaled itself as my homepage, cannot get shot of it by going to internet setting and reselecting my home page, had this once before and got rid of it eventually can't remember how now.
The swine thing sailed in past Spybot and Zone alarm(incidently the earlier version of zone alarm was better than the present one I have installed)
Someone on another website suggested a free prog called CW Shredder, but I could never get it to run it kept asking for a DLL my machine apparently did not have.
Any ideas on how to be rid of this intrusive bastard?, it irritates the cacky out of me
Now I think on it, the last time I was advised to look for a particular key in the registry,I deleted same with regedit and that did the trick, had a look in the registry and there dosen't seem to be anything there that doesn't belong.
Can't use the "Find" to track this swine down because it just comes up as blank in the URL slot at the top.
The swine thing sailed in past Spybot and Zone alarm(incidently the earlier version of zone alarm was better than the present one I have installed)
Someone on another website suggested a free prog called CW Shredder, but I could never get it to run it kept asking for a DLL my machine apparently did not have.
Any ideas on how to be rid of this intrusive bastard?, it irritates the cacky out of me
Now I think on it, the last time I was advised to look for a particular key in the registry,I deleted same with regedit and that did the trick, had a look in the registry and there dosen't seem to be anything there that doesn't belong.
Can't use the "Find" to track this swine down because it just comes up as blank in the URL slot at the top.
Last edited by tony draper; 24th August 2004 at 11:35.
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From: Newcastle/UK
Thank you Mr C, adaware did the trick, still lot of stuff seems to get past spybot and zone alarm, dunno whether to delete those two.
Had adaware on once before but it gave me some problems so I deleted it.
Thanks again,great stuff.
Had adaware on once before but it gave me some problems so I deleted it.
Thanks again,great stuff.
Plastic PPRuNer
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From: Rochechouart, France
Tony, why don't you download Firefox and use it instead of Incontinent Exploder?
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
It's a much better browser, much more secure and very unlikely to be hijacked.
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
It's a much better browser, much more secure and very unlikely to be hijacked.
The Oracle
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From: Naples, Florida U.S.A.
tony draper,
Download Hijack This! and post the log file here. Do NOT make any repairs. (Hijack This! pulls up everything, including programs that are supposed to be in your computer.)
Take Care,
Richard
Download Hijack This! and post the log file here. Do NOT make any repairs. (Hijack This! pulls up everything, including programs that are supposed to be in your computer.)
Take Care,
Richard
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Well the buggah is back,booted up this morning and there it was, so Zonealarm spybot and adaware don't remove it, I tried downloading that DDL, E-Liam,in fact as far as I know I did download it a while back when I downloaded CW Shredder,but I could not find it,where do I download it to?,ie do I download it to the windows folder?
Thanks for the help chaps, I have discovered a new problem with this scoundrel search engine, when I try and post on a MSN website I am a member of,I get that search engine poping up when I click to post,ergo I can no longer post on that website.
bloody liberty it is.
AHA!! Thats seems to have done for the swine CWShredde has hunted it down and kicked its arse off me machine,.
Downloaded that DDL from our link E-Liam, and it installed itself no probs this time, I already had Shredder,and it finally ran ok great stuff, thanks again peeps.
Thanks for the help chaps, I have discovered a new problem with this scoundrel search engine, when I try and post on a MSN website I am a member of,I get that search engine poping up when I click to post,ergo I can no longer post on that website.
bloody liberty it is.
AHA!! Thats seems to have done for the swine CWShredde has hunted it down and kicked its arse off me machine,.
Downloaded that DDL from our link E-Liam, and it installed itself no probs this time, I already had Shredder,and it finally ran ok great stuff, thanks again peeps.
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From: asia
Tony, are you keeping Spybot upto date?
I find that spybot seems to stop all these things, but it's one disadvantage is is that you have to keep checlking of rupdates manualy, and also change some of the defaults settings to get max protection. (sorry, thats two!)
I find that spybot seems to stop all these things, but it's one disadvantage is is that you have to keep checlking of rupdates manualy, and also change some of the defaults settings to get max protection. (sorry, thats two!)
