Ever re-setting display, homepage and search...

[Guest]

My Defender beta or Live One care causes a recurring error msg when I fire
up IE the browser goes to the Microsoft site with error msg that "malicious
spyware has... changed my momepage and searcpage... and gves instructions to
fix...yet my site is forever re-setting my display, homepage and
searchage.? I can't keep a display or theme setting for more than a half hour
or so when it changes to blue background and regular same settings-defalt
maybe?
How can I fix? started after intalled live one care and Defender beta...
Scott

 

[Guest]

It appears that your browser has been hijacked.

Turn off System Restore and run several online threat scans beginning with
a-squared, SpyZero, PestScan, X-cleaner, Panda and Trend. Rather than
listing every URL, just go here:
http://scottsecor.com/consult/Pages/security.html

Once the hijacker is identified (and possibly removed), rescan. Then set
your default home page in IE. Reboot and see whether the hijacker returns.

a-sqaured and HijackThis can perform a more detailed analysis, but that
would best be discussed in forums devoted to those tools, and not here.

 

[Guest]

awfully tardy-but thank you a lot
Scott
R.

It appears that your browser has been hijacked.

Turn off System Restore and run several online threat scans beginning with
a-squared, SpyZero, PestScan, X-cleaner, Panda and Trend. Rather than
listing every URL, just go here:
http://scottsecor.com/consult/Pages/security.html

Once the hijacker is identified (and possibly removed), rescan. Then set
your default home page in IE. Reboot and see whether the hijacker returns.

a-sqaured and HijackThis can perform a more detailed analysis, but that
would best be discussed in forums devoted to those tools, and not here.

 

[Guest]

You have a good excuse. I might have taken the better part of two weeks just
to reboot your hijacked system. ;-)

Please note that a link to the 2-spyware.com HijackThis log analyzer has
been added to the matrix of threat scanners. If you are IT-savvy, you might
want to spend some time hardening your system. There is a CIS-compliant
Security Benchmark at this location:

http://scottsecor.com/consult/Pages/benchmark.html

Anything below 8 on the Belarc Advisor scale of 1 to 10 is worrisome.
(Incidentally, most untweaked Windows XP systems rate somwwhere between 2 and
3).