homepage hijacker

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Paula

I recently installed the microsoft beta spyware because I
had a homepage hijacker. The spyware found it, but has not
yet removed the hijacker - it continues to come back. I
have tried my virus scanner, Yahoo's spyware and lavasoft
spyware and none of them have been able to remove it. Does
anyone have a suggestion on how to get rid of the hijacker?
 
Can you say more that would help us identify what particular hijacker is in
place on your machine?

What site does it take you to?
 
Get HijackThis.exe from
http://www.tomcoyote.com/hjt/HijackThis/exe

SCAN your system and SAVE LOG then send me the log as an
attachment. I will look at it and tell you how to get rid
of it.

So far MS AntiSpy is a dismal failure when it comes to
CoolWebSearch, VX2, and About:Blank. Hopefully it will
learn about them as time goes by.

Ron Kinner MVP Servers

rkinner AT att DOT net
 
Paula said:
I recently installed the microsoft beta spyware because I
had a homepage hijacker. The spyware found it, but has not
yet removed the hijacker - it continues to come back. I
have tried my virus scanner, Yahoo's spyware and lavasoft
spyware and none of them have been able to remove it. Does
anyone have a suggestion on how to get rid of the hijacker?
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First, if you don't have WinXP SP2, get LSP-Fix - a free program to repair
damaged Winsock 2 stacks
http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm
save it because you might need to repair the Winsock 2 stacks after removing
the culprit.
For WinXP SP2 this command will restore the Winsock stacks if you can't
connect after clearing the malware.
Go to Start | Run and type
CMD
In the command window type
netsh winsock reset

Then get CWShredder
http://www.intermute.com/products/cwshredder.html

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Try using Aluria's Spyware Illeminator. I use both this
one and Lavasoft's Adaware (since it is free) for double
the protection (in theory:)). Lavasoft would not remove
a few of these for me either, but Aluria's program did.
It cost $30 but well worth the money.
 
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