Home page hijacked

[Guest]

I bought a new computer with windows XP on it. Every time I start my computer a program of some type changes my Internet Explorer homepage (to myhandysearch.com) and puts a pile of bookmarks into my computer. I delete them and reset my homepage, but the next time I start my computer it resets to that crap. I cannot find where the start up programs are listed (like they were in Windows 98) or how to turn this off. I also cannot find any reference to the page if I do a search of all files on my computer (looking for my, handy, search, myhandysearch, and all other possible variations). I've run Ad-Aware and other such programs and it stillm happens and Norton Anti-Virus does not detect it as a virus

Any help would be appreciated

 

[Venkatesh [MCSD]]

Hi there Howie,

That could be a coolwebsearch variant, you may download coolwebsearch trojan
remover from here:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/CWShredder.zip

You may also would like to check out the below site:

Home Page Setting Changes Unexpectedly
http://mvps.org/sramesh2k/IEFAQ.htm#homepage

HTH
Venkatesh [MS India Community Star]

I bought a new computer with windows XP on it. Every time I start my

computer a program of some type changes my Internet Explorer homepage (to
myhandysearch.com) and puts a pile of bookmarks into my computer. I delete
them and reset my homepage, but the next time I start my computer it resets
to that crap. I cannot find where the start up programs are listed (like
they were in Windows 98) or how to turn this off. I also cannot find any
reference to the page if I do a search of all files on my computer (looking
for my, handy, search, myhandysearch, and all other possible variations).
I've run Ad-Aware and other such programs and it stillm happens and Norton
Anti-Virus does not detect it as a virus.