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wilma2

Hi there i have explorer 6 installed and i have noticed
that all my favorites have gone from html files to urls.
For example it is now in my favorites as yahoo.url and not
yahoo.html as it used to be. A search in my folder showed
that they are also no longer shortcuts. The icons in the
favorites folder are now also gone. Another thing I have
noticed is the I can no longer search from the address bar
unless I add the doamin name for example I used to be able
to type just yahoo in the bar and it would go to yahoo.com
now it returns http://www.#?20 and that is it and goes to
page not found. Can anyone help with this? I have not
found any info anywhere about it but am afraid it might
either be a spyware or an intrusion...any help would be
appreciated
 
To get your icons back get one of these programs:

FavOrg - Restore and Save Favorite Icons (Line 108)
www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm
or
www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,9883,00.asp
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Also try FavIoncizer:
"www.codeproject.com/tools/faviconizer.asp?
target=favicons"

It will actually find about a third more than
FavOrg does (since it checks for referenced URL's), but
lacks some of the other cababilites of FavOrg
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Hi Wilma - I agree - sounds like malware of some sort, but you kinda need to
know what the parasite(s) is/are before you can do much about fixing them
except to apply some general tools like AdAware and/or SpyBot S&D (see
below). Start here:

Download HijackThis, free, here:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/hijackthis.zip

Unzip it to any convenient folder, start it then press Scan. Click on
SaveLog when it's finished which will create hijackthis.log. Now click the
Config button, then Misc Tools and click on Generate StartupList.log which
will create Startuplist.txt

Then go to one of the following forums:

Spyware and Hijackware Removal Support, here:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/forums/index.php?s=8a236cdf61469fbad3bddbe810be0374&act=SF&f=11

or Net-Integration here:
http://www.net-integration.net/cgi-...86d536d57b5f65b6e40c55365e;act=ST;f=27;t=6949

or Tom Coyote here:
http://tomcoyote.org/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=10&t=495&s=2c6e92805e310b519b9fa61cc7098fba

Sign in, then copy and paste both files into a message asking for
assistance, Someone will answer with detailed instructions for the removal
of your parasite(s).


For the general hijack case, the best way to start is to 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. If it has to fix things, be sure to re-boot and rerun
AdAware again and repeat this cycle until you get a clean scan. The reason
is that it may have to remove things which are currently "in use" before it
can then clean up others.

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. The reason is that SpyBot sometimes has to remove things
which are currently "in use" before it can then clean up others.


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


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



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Thanks I will try that I am a little surprised I need
another program to do it but oh well. Do you think that
will enable me to search from the address bar again as
well? A friend of mine told me it maybe a dns thing, both
problems but i see nothing wrong there. Anyway thanks
again, it is appreciated
 
search from address bar
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tools
internet options
advanced tab
find in listing.....
search from the address bar options
make desired changes
click apply or ok to exit
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