Hijacking Explorer Start Page

[Guest]

Hello. I read http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1579, Beginners Guides: Browser Hijacking & How to Stop It, Mike Dowler, PCstats, May 10, 2004 and found a bogus registry setting: Start page file://c:/spex/start.html, but every time I delete the bogus setting and rebooted, it automatically appeared. Any help on how to clear this issue? I cannot set my home page as desired. Thank you.

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Try these programs to check for any spyware that may be on your system:

Ad-Aware - www.lavasoftusa.com
Spybot - http://www.safer-networking.org/
CWShredder - http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html

Also see the following links:

http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/security/articles/spyware.asp

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Will Denny
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| Hello. I read http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1579,
Beginners Guides: Browser Hijacking & How to Stop It, Mike Dowler, PCstats,
May 10, 2004 and found a bogus registry setting: Start page
file://c:/spex/start.html, but every time I delete the bogus setting and
rebooted, it automatically appeared. Any help on how to clear this issue? I
cannot set my home page as desired. Thank you.
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[Deruni]

Hi,
i suggest thesee programs:

1. lavasoft Ad-aware http://www.lavasoft.de
2. Spybot Search&Destroy : http://www.safer-networking.org/

Hello. I read http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1579,

Beginners Guides: Browser Hijacking & How to Stop It, Mike Dowler, PCstats,
May 10, 2004 and found a bogus registry setting: Start page
file://c:/spex/start.html, but every time I delete the bogus setting and
rebooted, it automatically appeared. Any help on how to clear this issue? I
cannot set my home page as desired. Thank you.

 

[Guest]

There is probably a process re-adding it, best way to deal with these sort of things is to run some form of spam/ad/spybot destroyer on the pc.

My personal favorite at the moment is Spybot Search and destroy (just google for it) it's a freeware app, give that a go.

Ashleigh