Homepage locked and Tab Removed

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Jeremy

Greetings,

The problem that I am having is that the homepage for my internet
explorer has been set to a page that is ... undesirable and the tab in
internet options which includes the homepage has been removed. So I
was wondering if anyone could tell me the fix for this. Any help you
can give would be appreciated. Thanks.
 
Jeremy said:
Greetings,

The problem that I am having is that the homepage for my internet
explorer has been set to a page that is ... undesirable and the tab in
internet options which includes the homepage has been removed. So I
was wondering if anyone could tell me the fix for this. Any help you
can give would be appreciated. Thanks.
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Browser hijacker parasites cause this. Read the following and follow the
advice:
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
 
I am having the same problem. If I find out anything
outside of this discussion group I will post it.
 
Hi BK and Jeremy - This has been showing up a lot lately and seems to be
caused by some malware called CoolWebSearch. Do the following:
Download and run: http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/cwshredder.zip to
remove the parasite

Then download and run:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/iegentabs.reg to restore your
tabs and remove any restrictions that the parasite has put in place.

However, this also indicates that you may have acquired some other malware
along the way. If you go to this page at Jim Eshelman's site, here:
http://aumha.org/a/noads.htm and wait a little bit (be patient), an analysis
of a number of possible parasites on your machine will be made to help you
identify and remove them. NOTE: You will need to disable Ad Blocking in Zone
Alarm 3.x, if present or any other Ad Blocking software which interferes
with Java Scripting for this scan to work. You should get a message between
the two lines of **** giving the results of the scan.

Get Ad-Aware 6.0, Build 181 or later, here:
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/. Update and run this regularly
to get rid of most "spyware/hijackware" on your machine.

Another excellent program for this purpose is SpyBot Search and Destroy
available here: http://security.kolla.de/ SpyBot Support Forum here:
http://www.net-integration.net/cgi-bin/forums/ikonboard.cgi. I recommend
using both normally. After fixing things with SpyBot S&D, be sure to re-boot
and rerun SpyBot again and repeat this cycle until you get a clean "no red"
scan.


Note that sometimes you need to make a judgement call about what these
programs report as spyware. See here, for example:
http://www.imilly.com/alexa.htm



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Please respond in the same thread.
Regards, Jim Byrd, MS-MVP



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