foreign program has hijacked IE6.0!! Help!!

[bob laskow]

support-
about three weeks ago, when i accessed IE, another
program appeared in its place - "orbitexplorer". the URL
indicated in the ADDRESS spot is incorrect - "no such URL"

In my usual ham-handed way, I delved into the program
files, found orbit and from what I could see, it was just
collecting information on every file i accessed via IE.

I tried to delete it, but no luck. in frustration, i
changed the name of the two files under orbit. Now it
keeps looking for its files, and doesn't bring up ORBIT
but also refuses to allow access to normal IE functions.

I still have the "Install Windows XP" CD but not sure
how to load it over the existing IE. Please help...and
tell me who Orbit is!


Bob 312 944 3150
purchased dell 4300 pc approx july 2002.

 

[DVarnau]

Bob,
See: http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite/Xupiter.html
Ad-aware... http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/
Spybot S&D... http://security.kolla.de/
Both should be updated before use.

Additional information, including security tips at:
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm

Don