Setting Homepage

[Richard]

Hello,
I have a problem setting my web homepage using IE6. Over
the last few days my home page appears as www.search-
space.com
As far as I know I have never accessed this page. I have
tried to reset my hompeage by going into internet options
deleting temp internet files and clearing history and
resetting my homepage, which seems to work whilst I stay
on line. However, when I go off-line and then back on-
line, my homepage returns to search-space.com.
I would be grateful for advice as to how to permanently
remove the unwanted homepage and how I can re-set my
homepage to the page that I want.

thanks

 

[SusanBTeqDELETETHIS]

Go to Tools - Internet Options - General Tab (first one) -
Look at FIRST box on top that says "You can choose which
page to use for your home page" and you get three
choices: "USE CURRENT" or "USE DEFAULT" or "USE BLANK".
But before you do this, go to the page that you'd like to
use as your home page, and then simply click on "USE
CURRENT". Or else you can just type in the URL of the
page you want.

Susan

 

[Hans Le Roy]

Hi,

I guess you have been hijacked. Try HijackThis - http://tomcoyote.org/hjt/

Kind regards

Hans Le Roy
MS MVP Win/IE-OE

 

[Jim Byrd]

Hi Richard - This is a CoolWebSearch variant. Do the following:

Download and run: http://www.merijn.org/files/cwshredder.zip to remove the
parasite. Be sure to close all instances of IE and OE. Alwasys download a
fresh copy as this program is updated frequently.

Then download and run:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/iegentabs.reg to restore your
tabs and remove any restrictions that the parasite has put in place.

However, this also indicates that you may have acquired some other malware
along the way. If you go to this page at Jim Eshelman's site, here:
http://aumha.org/a/noads.htm and wait a little bit (be patient), an analysis
of a number of possible parasites on your machine will be made to help you
identify and remove them. NOTE: You will need to disable Ad Blocking in Zone
Alarm 3.x, if present or any other Ad Blocking software which interferes
with Java Scripting for this scan to work. You should get a message between
the two lines of **** giving the results of the scan.

Get Ad-Aware 6.0, Build 181 or later, here:
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/. Update and run this regularly
to get rid of most "spyware/hijackware" on your machine. If it has to fix
things, be sure to re-boot and rerun AdAware again and repeat this cycle
until you get a clean scan. The reason is that it may have to remove
things which are currently "in use" before it can then clean up others.

Another excellent program for this purpose is SpyBot Search and Destroy
available here: http://security.kolla.de/ SpyBot Support Forum here:
http://www.net-integration.net/cgi-bin/forums/ikonboard.cgi. I recommend
using both normally. After fixing things with SpyBot S&D, be sure to
re-boot and rerun SpyBot again and repeat this cycle until you get a clean
"no red" scan. The reason is that SpyBot sometimes has to remove things
which are currently "in use" before it can then clean up others.



Note that sometimes you need to make a judgement call about what these
programs report as spyware. See here, for example:
http://www.imilly.com/alexa.htm

Once you get this cleaned up, you might want to consider installing the
SpywareBlaster and SpywareGuard here to help prevent this kind of thing from
happening in the future:

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/spywareblaster.html (Prevents malware Active
X installs) (BTW, SpyWare Blaster is not memory resident ... no CPU or
memory load - but keep it updated) The latest version as of this writing
will prevent installation or prevent the malware from running if it is
already installed, and it provides information and fixit-links for a variety
of parasites.

http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareguard.html (Monitors for attempts to
install malware) Both Very Highly Recommended


--
Please respond in the same thread.
Regards, Jim Byrd, MS-MVP



In

 

[NaresH KumaR]

This problem is due to spywares:

To remove the spyware from your system automatically, please
download and install any of the following spyware remover in your system.

1. Ad-aware:

Download and install Ad-Aware from any of the URLs given below:

To erase the spyware programs from loading from your system, download and
install a third party utility called Ad-aware from any of the URLs given
below:


http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/ (Recommended)

Also download the latest reference file.

-or-

http://www.webattack.com/get/adaware.shtml

-or-

http://www.webattack.com/dlnow/dlnow.dll?Inc=No&ID=100156



2. Spybot

You can download spybot from the URL given below:

http://download.com.com/3000-2144-10122137.html