A
Al Figueroa
My browser was hijacked after viewing a web page that
resulted in lots of pop ups and later I could not recover
my default web browser site. For over a week I battled
this problem and every time I would clear it and even
edited the registry, after booting my system the unwanted
page would show up as the default browser page.
With the help of "hicjakthis" I was able to troubleshoot
the problem and realised that the "winlogon.exe" could
have been changed. When I checked the winlogon file for
properties I noticed that it had been modified the day my
troubles began with the hijacked page. Luckily windows
saved a copy of my old file under the name of
winlogon.old.
How I resolved the hijack problem was to rename the
winlogon.old to winlogon.exe and rename the recently
modified winlogon file. When I booted my system again, the
hicjak problem was gone.
Hope this will help others in re-establishing their
systems and its another defeat to hijackers.
I suggest for you to make a backup of your winlogon.exe
file often and keep it in a safe place because we all know
that the hijackers will continue their perverted ways.
By the way, I have been using the latest Norton antivirus
system all the time and still got this problem. It's not a
virus, just malisious ways of changing your system if you
don't have high level protection.
Good luck
resulted in lots of pop ups and later I could not recover
my default web browser site. For over a week I battled
this problem and every time I would clear it and even
edited the registry, after booting my system the unwanted
page would show up as the default browser page.
With the help of "hicjakthis" I was able to troubleshoot
the problem and realised that the "winlogon.exe" could
have been changed. When I checked the winlogon file for
properties I noticed that it had been modified the day my
troubles began with the hijacked page. Luckily windows
saved a copy of my old file under the name of
winlogon.old.
How I resolved the hijack problem was to rename the
winlogon.old to winlogon.exe and rename the recently
modified winlogon file. When I booted my system again, the
hicjak problem was gone.
Hope this will help others in re-establishing their
systems and its another defeat to hijackers.
I suggest for you to make a backup of your winlogon.exe
file often and keep it in a safe place because we all know
that the hijackers will continue their perverted ways.
By the way, I have been using the latest Norton antivirus
system all the time and still got this problem. It's not a
virus, just malisious ways of changing your system if you
don't have high level protection.
Good luck