"Iwantsearch.com" hijacked my homepage

[Drew]

Everytime I blink this rotten bloody site has taken over
my homepage (iwantsearch.com). I have run several
spyware/adware programs and looked throughout my OS by I
cant find the culprit anywhere.

Does anyone know how to get rid of this garbage ?

 

[Jurren Bouman]

Everytime I blink this rotten bloody site has taken over
my homepage (iwantsearch.com). I have run several
spyware/adware programs and looked throughout my OS by I
cant find the culprit anywhere.

Does anyone know how to get rid of this garbage ?

See this website:
"Dealing with Unwanted Spyware and Parasites"
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm

Download,install and run the program called: "CWShredder". See if that
works.

And/or:
"THE PARASITE FIGHT"
http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm


If you don't have any anti-virus/firewall software installed then you
could do an online scan at RAV:
http://www.ravantivirus.com/scan/

and/or Panda:
http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/com/activescan_principal.htm

If you run Windows XP and you don't have a firewall installed then at
least turn on XPs firewall:
"Use the Internet Connection Firewall"
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/learnmore/icf.mspx


--
Jurren Bouman
MVP Windows - Security

"Microsoft Trustworthy Computing: Security"
http://www.microsoft.com/security/default.mspx

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP]

Everytime I blink this rotten bloody site has taken over
my homepage (iwantsearch.com). I have run several
spyware/adware programs and looked throughout my OS by I
cant find the culprit anywhere.

Does anyone know how to get rid of this garbage ?

First, get LSP-Fix - a free program to repair damaged Winsock 2 stacks
http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm
Then see
How to remove Coolwebsearch and affiliates
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm#Coolwebsearch

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE
Please respond in Newsgroup only. Do not send email
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Protect your PC
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

 

[Kelly]

You have malicious (BHO) Browser Helper Objects installed.
Use http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/toolbarcop.htm to remove! (Ad-Aware
will not fix this problem)