Can't change my Homepage- please help

[Guest]

Somehow my homepage got changed to res://uynpx.dll/index.html#96676. Every time I try to change it back to the homepage that I want (Tools - Internet Options, Change address - Apply - OK), it does not keep the Homepage that I tried to change it to an goes back to the aforementioned. How do I correct this problem? It also seems that anytime I try to go to a new webpage, the new page has to be 'maximized' to fit the screen (it starts out just covering the top of the screen and goes down about 1 inch) How do I get these pages to open with 'full view?' Both of these problems started at the same time, along with a bunch of pop ups that I don't want either. THANK YOU FOR ANY HELP YOU CAN OFFER!

 

[Rich Barry]

You most likely got hijacked by a trojan, spyware or adware. Use these
websites to check.
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

http://safespy.net/Spyware_Hunter.htm

http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/

http://spybot-spyware.com/trojan.htm

http://www.spysweeper.com/

http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/

Somehow my homepage got changed to res://uynpx.dll/index.html#96676.

Every time I try to change it back to the homepage that I want (Tools -
Internet Options, Change address - Apply - OK), it does not keep the
Homepage that I tried to change it to an goes back to the aforementioned.
How do I correct this problem? It also seems that anytime I try to go to a
new webpage, the new page has to be 'maximized' to fit the screen (it starts
out just covering the top of the screen and goes down about 1 inch) How do I
get these pages to open with 'full view?' Both of these problems started at
the same time, along with a bunch of pop ups that I don't want either.
THANK YOU FOR ANY HELP YOU CAN OFFER!

 

[rickm]

Somehow my homepage got changed to res://uynpx.dll/index.html#96676. Every time I try to change it back to the homepage that I want (Tools - Internet Options, Change address - Apply - OK), it does not keep the Homepage that I tried to change it to an goes back to the aforementioned. How do I correct this problem? It also seems that anytime I try to go to a new webpage, the new page has to be 'maximized' to fit the screen (it starts out just covering the top of the screen and goes down about 1 inch) How do I get these pages to open with 'full view?' Both of these problems started at the same time, along with a bunch of pop ups that I don't want either. THANK YOU FOR ANY HELP YOU CAN OFFER!

I had a user at work that had the same problem. Install Ad-aware; if
the browser doesn't let you go to www.lavasoftusa.com then go to
download.com and type "ad-aware" in the search field. The latest build
is 181 or so. Install, then update it, then scan. You'll have to
reboot once to clean this one up.

 

[S.Sengupta]

Hi,
Try these:
HiJack This: http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=3155
AdAware: www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
Spybot S & D: www.safer-networking.org/
Check for Parasites/Worms: www.gemal.dk/browserspy/parasites.html
CWShredder: http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html

regards,
ssg MS-MVP
pronetworks.org