...wabu.com/passthrough....HELP!

[Guest]

Hello

I have W2K, IE6, with a DSL Internet connection through CenturyTel. Somehow there is this wabu.com thing that has attached itself to IE. If I set the homepage to http://www.yahoo.com (or antyhing else) it will automatically change to http://wabu.com/passthrough/index.html?http://www.yahoo.com, which will eventually get to yahoo.com but then there is an annoying banner across the bottom of the screen. There is no program in Add/Remove programs releated to the wabu thing and nothing in the start manu either. I have searched the registry for *wabu* and deleated all entries. That will fix it for a while but then it comes back all by itself. It's like a spyware or something keeps re-installing this wabu thing
Has anyone come acrss this and know of a way to get rid of it for good

Thanks

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP]

Hello,

I have W2K, IE6, with a DSL Internet connection through CenturyTel.
Somehow there is this wabu.com thing that has attached itself to IE.
If I set the homepage to http://www.yahoo.com (or antyhing else) it
will automatically change to
http://wabu.com/passthrough/index.html?http://www.yahoo.com, which
will eventually get to yahoo.com but then there is an annoying banner
across the bottom of the screen. There is no program in Add/Remove
programs releated to the wabu thing and nothing in the start manu
either. I have searched the registry for *wabu* and deleated all
entries. That will fix it for a while but then it comes back all by
itself. It's like a spyware or something keeps re-installing this
wabu thing. Has anyone come acrss this and know of a way to get rid
of it for good?

Thanks!

Wabu.com is from this parasite.
LOP http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite/lop.html
More: http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/Darnit.htm#lop
More: http://www.spywareinfo.com/articles/lop/

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