help! my home page keep changing

[mark]

everytime i open ie, my home page is some search engine,
and teh page address is something like this:
res://mshp.dll/index.html#37049, or the find4u.net...
something has gotten into my computer...obviously, but
how do i get rid of it? i have installed mcafee virus
scan and firewall, but that hasnot helped

it is so bad now that i can not type in an address like
this www.yahoo.com and get there, i have to type in
http://www.yahoo.com

please help!!!

 

[siljaline]

everytime i open ie, my home page is some search engine,
and teh page address is something like this:
res://mshp.dll/index.html#37049, or the find4u.net...
something has gotten into my computer...obviously, but
how do i get rid of it? i have installed mcafee virus
scan and firewall, but that hasnot helped

it is so bad now that i can not type in an address like
this www.yahoo.com and get there, i have to type in
http://www.yahoo.com

please help!!!

http://www.merijn.org/cwschronicles.html#olehelp

Run the "Cool Web Shredder" -
http://216.180.233.163/~merijn/files/CWShredder.exe
Close all open programs - click on the above downloaded
executable and follow the prompts.

HTH

--
siljaline

MS - MVP Windows IE/OE
______________________

(Reply to group, as return address
is invalid - that we may all benefit)

 

[mark]

Thank you for the information. May I ask what this
program does? Also, do you know what is causing the
problem?

Unfortunately, I am a little gun shy about just
arbitrarily downloading a program and running it,
especially one that is called web shredder, without
knowing a little about the program first.

 

[siljaline]

Thank you for the information. May I ask what this
program does? Also, do you know what is causing the
problem?

Unfortunately, I am a little gun shy about just
arbitrarily downloading a program and running it,
especially one that is called web shredder, without
knowing a little about the program first.

http://www.merijn.org/cwschronicles.html


--
siljaline

MS - MVP Windows IE/OE
______________________

(Reply to group, as return address
is invalid - that we may all benefit)

 

[Upnrunning]

-----Original Message-----
everytime i open ie, my home page is some search engine,
and teh page address is something like this:
res://mshp.dll/index.html#37049, or the find4u.net...
something has gotten into my computer...obviously, but
how do i get rid of it? i have installed mcafee virus
scan and firewall, but that hasnot helped

it is so bad now that i can not type in an address like
this www.yahoo.com and get there, i have to type in
http://www.yahoo.com

please help!!!
.
You've got scumware on your computer. There are programs

that advertisers use to track customers -adware- or to
steal information - spyware. The problem you're talking
about, with the home page getting changed, is called
browser hijacking.

I use two programs to deal with scumware: Ad-Aware by
Lavasoft, and SpyBot Search and Destroy. I use both
programs. Ad-Aware seems to find a few more problems than
Spybot. Both of these programs are freeware; just put the
company name in a Google search for the exact URL.
You need to keep the programs updated and run them regularly.
For additional information, you can run a search on Adware,
Spyware, Scumware, and computer parasites. Doxdesk
(and.doxdesk.com? .org?) can run an online scan (free).

Good luck!

Upnrunning

 

[Jerry Greenberg]

Go here and download CWShredder . This gets rid of this highjack ware.

http://www.softpedia.com/public/cat/10/17/10-17-150.shtml


Google search criteria
http://www.google.com/search?q=cwshredder+download&btnG=Google+Search


Jerry Greenberg
http://www.zoom-one.com