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Doug
June 8th 04, 04:53 AM
Thanks Mike, that lavasoft program helped save IE for me.
Great tip. Great tool.

>-----Original Message-----
>You've probably been hijacked.
>
>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
>Search & Destroy (http://www.safer-networking.org/) and
use them to check your
>system for other commercial parasites remembering that
they are only as good
>as when you last updated their reference files. I also
use a program called
>BHOCaptor (http://www.xcaptor.org) 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.
>
>Then finally there is CWShredder
>(http://www.zerosrealm.com/downloads/CWShredder.zip or
>http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/cwshredder.zip)
which is the best way
>of getting rid of the many forms of the CoolWebSearch
hijacker details of
>which can be found at
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html
>and also http://www.pestpatrol.com/pestinfo/c/cws.asp.
>
>If, after thoroughly checking your system and removing
all/any parasites
>found, you still cannot access the General tab Go to
Kelly's Korner and
>download the small file iegentabs.reg
>(http://www.kellys-korner-
xp.com/regs_edits/iegentabs.reg). Right click and
>merge with your registry and this should remove the
restrictions that have
>been put in place by the hijacker that are preventing
your access to Internet
>Options. Don't do this though until you've cleaned your
system and only if
>this has not restored access to the General tab.
>--
>Mike Maltby MS-MVP

>
>
>Sam > wrote:
>
>> running ME and IE 6.0 SP1 and I cannot change my home
>> page, delete temp internet files or cookies as I do not
>> have the General Tab. When I select Tools - Internet
>> Options I see the Security - Privacy - Content...
panels.
>> Has IE been hi-jacked or have I inadvertently set a
>> security setting? - Thanks
>
>
>.
>

Mike M
June 8th 04, 10:30 AM
Thanks for the feedback Doug.
--
Mike M


Doug > wrote:

> Thanks Mike, that lavasoft program helped save IE for me.
> Great tip. Great tool.