Can't set home page

[John J. Hughes II]

It seems I can no longer set the home page. Well I can set it but it
forgets a few minutes later. I have tried via regedit and the tools
options. It use to work, like yesterday. The page is always set to
"about:blank".

I have Panda antivirus installed and it has the no ad-ware feature and says
I am clean on both accounts.

I installed spybot and it says I am clean except for some cookies.

I have deleted the history, cookies, and reset the defaults in IE.

My search page and tool bars and what not are still all set to the default
(basically MS) and don't change.

If my PC is hijacked it doing a really dumb job of it.

I have WinXP Pro with all patches installed and windows update shows '0' in
all the columns.

As rule I never install shareware.

Any other suggestions?

Regards,
John

 

[oops!!]

John,


Download, install and run (FIX) Cool Web Shredder:

http://www.zerosrealm.com/downloads/CWShredder.zip
http://radiosplace.com/
http://computercops.biz/downloads-cat-14.html

You may need to fix your registry after that:

http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/RepairTabs.reg
1) Restores the missing Tabs in IE (usually spyware related)
2) Unlocks the grayed-out Home Page section
3) Removes the Administrator message in Internet Options

Zee

 

[John J. Hughes II]

Thanks for the quick reponse but this program also says my system is clean.


Done!
Your system was completely clean.

Windows XP (5.01.2600 SP1)
CWShredder v1.55.0
Written by Merijn - (e-mail address removed)

For any additional help with this program or removing CWS, visit:
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/

For information and documentation on the Coolwebsearch
trojan and its variants, visit:
http://www.merijn.org/cwschronicles.html

For donations to help support me, visit:
http://www.merijn.org/donate.html

Regards,
John

 

[oops!!]

John,

Good!!

Try the registry fix now.

Cheers,

Zee

 

[Martin C]

You could try this:

Download/run HijackThis from:
http://www.merijn.org/
Be very careful with this program though. Do not remove anything that is
referenced by it until you get advice on what to remove as it will list some
good items as well as bad ones.
See http://mjc1.com/mirror/hjt/#quick and read the quick start on how to
create a log file that can be sent to a forum that can provide assistance on
removal of unwanted problems.
Post the logs to an appropriate NG here where they specialize in
spyware/hijacker removal:
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/

There are many Forums that offer Free "Hijack This" log review.
http://www.spywareinfo.com/forums/
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/security,1
http://www.computercops.biz/forums.html
http://www.cybertechhelp.com/forums/index.php
http://boards.cexx.org/
http://forums.net-integration.net/
http://forum.mvps.org/
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/index.php
http://www.lavasoftsupport.com

Take your pick - they all offer excellent support -

Hope this helps,

Martin

 

[Mike Burgess]

Martin,
You need to update your URLs ......
http://www.merijn.org/ = dead link
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html

http://forum.mvps.org/ = dead link, but now being redirected to
http://forum.aumha.org/
____________________________________________________________
Mike Burgess [MVP Windows Shell\User] http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/
Blocking Spyware, Adware, Parasites, Hijackers, Trojans, with a HOSTS file
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm [updated 04-02-04]
Please post replies to this Newsgroup, email address is invalid
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[Martin C]

Thanks for the update Mike. I have corrected my links.

Martin

Martin,
You need to update your URLs ......
http://www.merijn.org/ = dead link
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html

http://forum.mvps.org/ = dead link, but now being redirected to
http://forum.aumha.org/
____________________________________________________________
Mike Burgess [MVP Windows Shell\User] http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/
Blocking Spyware, Adware, Parasites, Hijackers, Trojans, with a HOSTS file
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm [updated 04-02-04]
Please post replies to this Newsgroup, email address is invalid
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You could try this:

Download/run HijackThis from:
http://www.merijn.org/
Be very careful with this program though. Do not remove anything that is
referenced by it until you get advice on what to remove as it will list some
good items as well as bad ones.
See http://mjc1.com/mirror/hjt/#quick and read the quick start on how to
create a log file that can be sent to a forum that can provide

assistance

on
removal of unwanted problems.
Post the logs to an appropriate NG here where they specialize in
spyware/hijacker removal:
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/

There are many Forums that offer Free "Hijack This" log review.
http://www.spywareinfo.com/forums/
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/security,1
http://www.computercops.biz/forums.html
http://www.cybertechhelp.com/forums/index.php
http://boards.cexx.org/
http://forums.net-integration.net/
http://forum.mvps.org/
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/index.php
http://www.lavasoftsupport.com

Take your pick - they all offer excellent support -

Hope this helps,

Martin