Hijacked

[Guest]

It appears my son had been places he shouldn't have been. My browser has been
hijacked by favourlinks.com. I have run Microsoft Antisypware, Spybot, and
Ad-Aware and they find nothing, plus Norton AntiViris. It appears the
browser is first sent to rudesexlinks.com and then to favourlinks.com. It is
the favourlinks.com page that comes up.

Any help would be appreciated... thanks in advance.

 

[Guest]

Hi Jill, I have not found anything to indicate that either of these sites
contain active spyware.You should be able to reset things by opening MSAS and
going to Advanced Tools>System Explorers>IE Settings and click on restore
default settings.Once that is done you can reset to whatever homepage you had
before.Let us know how you get on.

 

[Guest]

That worked.... thank you sooooo much... my son also thanks you... however,
he will not be on the computer for a while...

.... Jill

 

[Guest]

hello.. i have had similar problems..i went to downloads.com and downloaded
the free version of Ewido. it took out all the problems.. i highly recommend
that you try it.

 

[Guest]

Jill, Glad it helped.Do you use Spyware Blaster or Spybot on your machine.

 

[Guest]

Mike... I use Spybot and Ad-Ware... have never tried Spyware Blaster. They
have taken care of all the problems except for this last one...

Thanks Mark... I will take a look at Ewido.

 

[Guest]

Hi Jill,

SpywareBlaster -
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/sbdownload.html

JavaCool's free SpywareBlaster automatically adds a lengthy list of
dangerous addresses to IE's Restricted sites.

SpywareBlaster is compatible with AOL's browser; it also works with current
versions of the Netscape, Firefox, and Mozilla browsers. Its most recent
iteration is SpywareBlaster 3.5.1
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/tutorial49.html

Engel