Hijacked By dotcomtoolbar!

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Bill

Please help as I have been hijacked by something called
the dotcomtoolbar. Whenever a domain does not resolve, I
am immediately taken to dotcomtoolbar.com. My homepage
settings are unaffected and my browser does not have any
added icons or anything.

Besides correcting this problem, how can I prevent it from
happening again? I have installed all the updates from
Microsoft when I first got this computer three weeks ago
and check regularly.

I thought Microsoft corrected this problem when there was
a rash of homepage bugs going around about a year ago.
Guess I was wrong. :(

Thanks in advance for your help!
 
Bill;
It is known as Scumware. 1, 2 and 3 are good. 3 will PREVENT this from
happening. Visit these sites. Download and install, run one or all. They
are all good, FREE utilities. The first site gives some recommendations.
http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads.php?cat=all#s-p
1) AdAware
http://www.lavasoft.de/support/download/
2) Spybot S & D
http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?lang=en&page=download
3) SpywareBlaster
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
4) Free Anti-Virus software.
http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php
5) Free Firewall.
http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/znalm/freeDownload.jsp
6) Free Pop-Up Stopper.
http://www.panicware.com/product_psfree.html
Hope this helps. Let us know.
Wes
 
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