Hi-Jacked IE7
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Hi-Jacked IE7
Hi,
My IE7 browser has been hijaked by a site called " asecuremask.com". I can't go to any other site and when I try to change the homepage in Internet Options it wont let me. I ran Adaware 2007 but it hasn't been able to cure the problem.
I myself use Firefox but my wife is slow to move away from IE.
Any suggestions welcome.
Willby
My IE7 browser has been hijaked by a site called " asecuremask.com". I can't go to any other site and when I try to change the homepage in Internet Options it wont let me. I ran Adaware 2007 but it hasn't been able to cure the problem.
I myself use Firefox but my wife is slow to move away from IE.
Any suggestions welcome.
Willby
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I would suggest you download and run hijackthis from, for example, http://www.download.com/HijackThis/3...-10379544.html (there's a sticky at the top of this forum)
This will produce a report which should include the website you mention - if you see it in the list delete it (this will remove it from the registry) and restart the PC (or post the output for further assistance [but use the 'disable smilies in post' feature if you do]).
I would also recommend you run spybot search and destroy instead of adaware (but do not install the Internet Explorer immunisation feature as it tends to slow everything down).
hth
amofw
This will produce a report which should include the website you mention - if you see it in the list delete it (this will remove it from the registry) and restart the PC (or post the output for further assistance [but use the 'disable smilies in post' feature if you do]).
I would also recommend you run spybot search and destroy instead of adaware (but do not install the Internet Explorer immunisation feature as it tends to slow everything down).
hth
amofw
Spoon PPRuNerist & Mad Inistrator
Don't fix the problem - that'll get her onto Firefox, pronto! 
Suggest you have a look at this:
http://forums.techguy.org/malware-re...direction.html
SD
Suggest you have a look at this:
http://forums.techguy.org/malware-re...direction.html
SD
I second the suggestion to abandon any incarnation of IE. Use anything but IE! Mozilla or Firefox, but never IE. Also, boycott websites that refuse to work unless you access them via IE.
