Explorer Problem

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Stevie Johnston

Hi,
My problem is when whenever I go on the Internet, explorer takes me to a
homepage I don't want. I know this isn't a virus as this has happened to me
before and one of you clever people told me to delete a file that the
website had put on my computer to make it open continually on their home
page. Can anyone tell me the name of the file I have to delete?
Thanks
Stevie
 
Stevie said:
Hi,
My problem is when whenever I go on the Internet, explorer takes me
to a homepage I don't want. I know this isn't a virus as this has
happened to me before and one of you clever people told me to delete
a file that the website had put on my computer to make it open
continually on their home page. Can anyone tell me the name of the
file I have to delete?
Thanks
Stevie
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Followup's set to poster, alt.privacy.spyware

Download AdAware, Spyware Blaster and CWShredder available at
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html and
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html respectively.

After running each of these, if your problem still persists post a message
in alt.privacy.spyware

Cheers
 
: Hi,
: My problem is when whenever I go on the Internet, explorer takes me to a
: homepage I don't want. I know this isn't a virus as this has happened to
me
: before and one of you clever people told me to delete a file that the
: website had put on my computer to make it open continually on their home
: page. Can anyone tell me the name of the file I have to delete?
: Thanks
: Stevie
:

If you think it is a virus, why do you not use your up to date virusscanner?
That should take care of the problem. Please tell me you have an up to date
virusscanner?

In fact it is not a virus. It is spyware/adware/mallware.

Download adaware, update it, run it, let it delete everything it finds.
Reboot, problem solved.
 
stephj41 said:
Hi,
My problem is when whenever I go on the Internet, explorer takes me to a
homepage I don't want. I know this isn't a virus as this has happened to me
before and one of you clever people told me to delete a file that the
website had put on my computer to make it open continually on their home
page. Can anyone tell me the name of the file I have to delete?
Thanks
Stevie
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Your browser has been hijacked, there are programs that'll get rid of
it, & others that'll keep you from getting hijacked again.
Did you download any free programs, or using p2p.
Go to majorgeeks.com & look in the spyware tools section. you could try
cws shredder, coolwebshredder, or hijack this, & you can post your
hijack this log http://www.spywareinfo.com/forums/
 
In Message-ID:<[email protected]> posted on Mon, 12 Apr
Hi,
My problem is when whenever I go on the Internet, explorer takes me to a
homepage I don't want. I know this isn't a virus as this has happened to me
before and one of you clever people told me to delete a file that the
website had put on my computer to make it open continually on their home
page. Can anyone tell me the name of the file I have to delete?
Thanks
Stevie
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Maybe reading this will give you an idea what has happened, how to
prevent it in the future, and some suggested applications to remove your
current hijacker:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/articles/hijacked/prevent.php

good luck
 
Quoth the raven named Stevie Johnston:
Hi, My problem is when whenever I go on the Internet, explorer
takes me to a homepage I don't want. I know this isn't a virus as
this has happened to me before and one of you clever people told me
to delete a file that the website had put on my computer to make it
open continually on their home page. Can anyone tell me the name of
the file I have to delete? Thanks Stevie
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The others told you how to rid the malware you have become infected
with. Allow me to add: get a better browser, a secure browser. And a
real newsreader. Try these on for size. All are free, and do not
interfere with your operating system.

Mozilla - 11 MB - browser, mail, news
http://www.mozilla.org/
-and/or-
Firefox [was Firebird] - 6 MB - browser only
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
Thunderbird - 7.5 MB - mail & news companion to Firefox
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/
-and/or-
Opera 7.23 - 3.2 MB (free version ad supported, $39USD no ads)
http://www.opera.com/download/ choose Non-Java version
 
John said:
: Hi,
: My problem is when whenever I go on the Internet, explorer takes me to a
: homepage I don't want. I know this isn't a virus as this has happened to
me
: before and one of you clever people told me to delete a file that the
: website had put on my computer to make it open continually on their home
: page. Can anyone tell me the name of the file I have to delete?
: Thanks
: Stevie
:

If you think it is a virus, why do you not use your up to date virusscanner?
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he has already stated that he knows it is *not* a virus...
That should take care of the problem. Please tell me you have an up to date
virusscanner?
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perhaps he does, perhaps he doesn't... it's a non sequitur here...
In fact it is not a virus. It is spyware/adware/mallware.
Click to expand...

it is a browser hijacker...
Download adaware, update it, run it, let it delete everything it finds.
Reboot, problem solved.
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not necessarily...
 
Stevie Johnston said:
Hi,
My problem is when whenever I go on the Internet, explorer takes me to a
homepage I don't want. I know this isn't a virus as this has happened to me
before and one of you clever people told me to delete a file that the
website had put on my computer to make it open continually on their home
page. Can anyone tell me the name of the file I have to delete?
Thanks
Stevie
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Hi,
Thanks for all your replies - however, I neglected to tell you that the PC
in question is at my work and I am now on Holiday til Monday. thanks I'll
let you know how it turns out.
Stevie
 
: John Donson wrote:
:
: > : > : Hi,
: > : My problem is when whenever I go on the Internet, explorer takes me to
a
: > : homepage I don't want. I know this isn't a virus as this has happened
to
: > me
: > : before and one of you clever people told me to delete a file that the
: > : website had put on my computer to make it open continually on their
home
: > : page. Can anyone tell me the name of the file I have to delete?
: > : Thanks
: > : Stevie
: > :
: >
: > If you think it is a virus, why do you not use your up to date
virusscanner?
:
: he has already stated that he knows it is *not* a virus...
:

Hmmmmm, read it too fast. My mistake.
 
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