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September 23rd, 2004 23:00
Help Needed !
I have a problem and I hope that someone can help. When I open IE, v6.0, I am brought to a webpage called ez-finder.com, with a few pop ups. I check the homepage and it says www.iwantsearch.com. Whenever I try to change it, it always defaults back to this. This is very annoying and I have no idea what may have been installed. My 2 year old was found clicking away with the mouse.
I have run a current virus scan, no viruses found. I have cleaned my cookies, didn't fix the problem. When I go to windows/downloaded files, I find a Searchbar, with Active X which was installed yesterday, when the computer was not in use. I'm not able to delete this Searchbar, as it says I have to close programs and restart windows. I've done this, with no luck.
Any help which could be offerred would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
dunedin
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September 23rd, 2004 23:00
You have been hijacked.
Download update and run
Spybot Search & Destroy http://www.majorgeeks.com/download2471.html
Get it to remove all the RED entries it finds
Hijack This http://www.majorgeeks.com/download3155.html
Make a special folder to download it to. Set it to "Scan" and then to create its "Log".
This will be long, but copy all of it into Notepad and post it to be checked.
nystrpr
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September 24th, 2004 00:00
Problem fixed, thank you !!!
dunedin
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September 24th, 2004 09:00
A pleasure
Glad it is sorted
redwolfe_98
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September 24th, 2004 21:00
tjpm12
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September 30th, 2004 17:00
In tthe future-
The following proceedure will remove the Internet Explorer Homepage Hijacker Trojan Aboutblank and others. This setup is for a WindowsXP OS.
Delete adware:
First you clean or delete the Registry of the alien Homepage.
off- line. 1: Start/run/Regedit/hky current/software/microsoft/internet explorer/main/delete search page & start page & res. InternetExplorer/search/delete res
2. Reset the Homepage to Default.
start/internet explorer/tools/internet options/home page click default/click ok
3. Restore the computer.
start/run/control panel/performance/system restore--------
click ok--- free of adware trojan
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