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Both my home machine (XP Professional) and my office machine (Windows 2000) have been hijacked. My home page changes to idgsearch (W2000) and globalfinder (XP-P). This is reaching the point where it is affecting productivty. I have tried a number of suggested solutions. Adaware and Spybot but, they have proven to be ineffective... i.e. instead of changing my home page every day... I have to run their program every day... This is not a solution.

Please help.
 
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Both my home machine (XP Professional) and my office
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machine (Windows 2000) have been hijacked. My home page
changes to idgsearch (W2000) and globalfinder (XP-P).
This is reaching the point where it is affecting
productivty. I have tried a number of suggested
solutions. Adaware and Spybot but, they have proven to be
ineffective... i.e. instead of changing my home page every
day... I have to run their program every day... This is
not a solution.
Please help.
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Make sure you're using the current build and ref files
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for AAW and running a "custom scan" not a "smart scan".
You can post your logfile at their forum and if cleaning
with AAW doesn't totally clean it up (these things morph
very quickly - sometimes daily), you may submit a
hijackthis log to see if something new is detected. This
way you can get your pute cleaned up and submit the files
in question so that they may be included in a future ref
file. Their forums are here:
http://www.lavasoftsupport.com/
 
Both my home machine (XP Professional) and my office machine (Windows 2000) have been hijacked. My home page changes to idgsearch (W2000) and globalfinder (XP-P). This is reaching the point where it is affecting productivty. I have tried a number of suggested solutions. Adaware and Spybot but, they have proven to be ineffective... i.e. instead of changing my home page every day... I have to run their program every day... This is not a solution.

Please help.
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If AdAware and Spybot can only find the infection, but not the
infecting agent, go to HijackThis. HJT is more effective in finding
hijackers, but needs expert interpretation of its output. Start here:
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?showtopic=5187

Chuck
I hate spam - PLEASE get rid of the spam before emailing me!
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.
 
Go to properties of the internet explorer icon on your
quick launch and put about:blank -nohome
then restart internet explorer from that icon & remove it
from your desktop by changing the settings from the
advanced tab under internet explorer -> Tools -> Internet
Options - > Advanced Tab.

Please also install a good anti virus software after that
:-))
Vijay
MCT
-----Original Message-----
Both my home machine (XP Professional) and my office
Click to expand...
machine (Windows 2000) have been hijacked. My home page
changes to idgsearch (W2000) and globalfinder (XP-P).
This is reaching the point where it is affecting
productivty. I have tried a number of suggested
solutions. Adaware and Spybot but, they have proven to be
ineffective... i.e. instead of changing my home page every
day... I have to run their program every day... This is
not a solution.
 
In addition to suggestions given look into hardening you Internet Explorer
settings to help prevent this in the future by taking advantage of different
configurations in Web Content Zones where you can add your oft visited safe
sites to the trused zone and then increase security in the internet zone.
See link below. -- Steve

http://www.jmu.edu/computing/info-security/engineering/issues/ie.shtml

A J Spiwak said:
Both my home machine (XP Professional) and my office machine (Windows
Click to expand...
2000) have been hijacked. My home page changes to idgsearch (W2000) and
globalfinder (XP-P). This is reaching the point where it is affecting
productivty. I have tried a number of suggested solutions. Adaware and
Spybot but, they have proven to be ineffective... i.e. instead of changing
my home page every day... I have to run their program every day... This is
not a solution.
 
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