Hmmm,
For some reason, when I open IE6 it will no longer go to my home page. Instead it goes to one of those search type pages and in the address bar
displays about:blank. In the Internet options the box for setting the home page now has 3 buttons. Use Current, which is deactivated, use default and
use blank. Whatever is typed in as home page address is overwritten as soon as IE6 is opened and reverts to about:blank.
Tried Norton Antivirus and Ad-aware6.0 but neither got rid of it.
Can't find any indication of a path or addres for it so don't know where to go to get rid of it.
Any ideas?
I'm also getting a lot of pop ups for spyware/adware downloads. I suppose that may be connected.
probably has been caused by spyware...
from the tools menu in IE go to internet options, check your homepage settings..
HTH
Dave - u need hijackthis - which is available from our site. Go to other bits and generally look around IIRC it's at the bottom of one of the
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[Edited on 3-7-04 by Hellfire]
Is your adaware up to date and set to scan registry as well as files. It sounds like you have a malware problem.
These days Homepage hijackers can be quite complex to track down.
Start by clearing out the cookies, then run adaware then hijack this ---make sure you get the real hijackthis freeware gpl not a shareware progam
with a very simlar name this link should find it
http://www.spychecker.com/program/hijackthis.htmlhttp://www.spychecker.com/program/hijackthis.html
If the hijack comes back after a reboot down load "start up editor" some times called "startup" and see what is starting when
windows fires up.
Good websites for more info
http://www.computercops.biz/
http://www.spychecker.com /
After that usual advice to ditch using Micro$ software for mail and browsing --- try Mozilla
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Originally posted by Peteff
Is your adaware up to date and set to scan registry as well as files. It sounds like you have a malware problem.
