Unwanted pages opens by itself

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Jim Fisk

I think this has happened from some spam that we may have gotten in email.

Now some times with I open IE6 it will open my Home page and then try to
open another page that I don't want to open. It's not the setting for Home
page. It is still set to MSN. This other page will try to open in new
window. Some times Personal Firewall catches it and it will not open. But
other times it does not stop it.

There must be something in the IE file that is doing this. How can I find
it and remove it for good?

Jim
 
That is called a browser hijack. You can download a tool
that will get rid of any spyware that is in your computer
(like gator) and it works really great. I've used it for
about a year or so and most if not all of my pop-ups and
hijacks have stopped. It is called Ad-Aware 6 and it is
free. You can copy and paste this URL to get it.
http://download.com.com/3000-2094-10045910.html
 
Jim Fisk said:
I think this has happened from some spam that we may have gotten in
email.

Now some times with I open IE6 it will open my Home page and then try
to open another page that I don't want to open. It's not the setting
for Home page. It is still set to MSN. This other page will try to
open in new window. Some times Personal Firewall catches it and it
will not open. But other times it does not stop it.

There must be something in the IE file that is doing this. How can I
find it and remove it for good?

Jim
Click to expand...

See
Dealing with Unwanted Spyware, Parasites, Toolbars and Search Engines
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
 
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