Home Page Problem

[Wayne L.]

I have a home page that somehow was placed on my
computer and I can not get rid of it. If I go to tools
internet options and home page and type in what I want as
my home page and hit apply it will work only once. The
next time I go on line there is this other home page I do
not want. Any advice????

[Mike M]

It appears that your homepage has been hijacked but in the absence of specific
details the following will hopefully be of some help to you in identifying and
removing the cause of this problem.

This would be a good time to download yourself a copy of the free Ad-Aware
6.0 from Lavasoft
(http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/) and also SpyBot
(http://www.safer-networking.org/) and scan your system for and remove all
unwanted parasites, adware and spyware that might be hiding on your PC.

I would also suggest you download and run merijn's CWShredder which targets
the CoolWebSearch parasite. CWShredder can be downloaded from
(http://www.zerosrealm.com/downloads/CWShredder.zip or
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/cwshredder.zip). Details of the many
forms of the CoolWebSearch hijacker can be found at
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html and also
http://www.pestpatrol.com/pestinfo/c/cws.asp.

Other useful tools include BHODemon
(http://www.definitivesolutions.com/bhodemon.htm that checks for
unwanted Browser Help Objects and SpywareBlaster
(http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareblaster.html) which can help prevent
some parasites getting a grip on your PC.

Finally if you still continue to experience problems download a copy of
HijackThis from (http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html). Create a
folder called hijackthis on C: and copy the file you downloaded to that
folder. Close as many applications as you can including all instances of
Internet Explorer and then run hijackthis.exe and post back the log, provided
that it isn't too long, to this thread, otherwise to the HijackThis Forum at
http://www.spywareinfo.com/forums/ and hopefully this will enable someone to
identify the cause of your problem.
--?
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



Wayne L. > wrote:

> I have a home page that somehow was placed on my
> computer and I can not get rid of it. If I go to tools
> internet options and home page and type in what I want as
> my home page and hit apply it will work only once. The
> next time I go on line there is this other home page I do
> not want. Any advice????

>-----Original Message-----
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www.webroot.com

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