Homepage automatically changes to quickpromotion.com

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Sumit

Hi,

I am facing this problem since last few days. Whenever I start my
machine and start Internet Explorer, I find that my home page has
automaticaly changed to www.quickpromotion.com. When I change it to
about.blank, it works till my machine is on, but whenever I restart my
machine, oops...the quickpromotion immediately takes over.

I have tried spybot, Adaware, HyjackThis, considering this as a
parasite problem, but did not get any success til date and the problem
still persist.

Somebody please help me.

Thanks in advance.

Sumit
 
run an antivirus program, or download one as well... also see if you can get
a noteworthy registry fixing program that may come along with an anti ad/spy
program and see if that will work as well.

if by chance you know how to edit registries (not recommended if you don't
know how to do this), see if you can delete any keys that may be associated
with it as well.

hope this helps.
 
STEP 1

Update your antivirus.
Download, install, and UPDATE the following programs:

Spybot-S&D (http://spybot.safer-networking.de/)
AND (it's AND, not OR)
Ad-aware (http://www.lavasoftusa.com/)

Disconnect Internet.
Restart computer in Safe Mode (see Help(F1) for more
information), and scan it using all these programs,
antivirus first.


STEP 2

Low transfat and low carb diet for your pc or How to
optimize Windows XP for the best performance:

http://home.earthlink.net/~rikhardk/How to optimize%
20Windows%20XP%20for%20the%20best%20performance.htm

or

http://www.rikhard.com (link in the middle)

Always keep antivirus and spy removal applications (links
on the bottom of the page) up-to-date, and scan regularly.


e-mail me if need more help.
 
Hi

Try the following programs to see what spyware your system has on it:

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

Also see the following link:

http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm

--

Will Denny
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User


| Hi,
|
| I am facing this problem since last few days. Whenever I start my
| machine and start Internet Explorer, I find that my home page has
| automaticaly changed to www.quickpromotion.com. When I change it to
| about.blank, it works till my machine is on, but whenever I restart my
| machine, oops...the quickpromotion immediately takes over.
|
| I have tried spybot, Adaware, HyjackThis, considering this as a
| parasite problem, but did not get any success til date and the problem
| still persist.
|
| Somebody please help me.
|
| Thanks in advance.
|
| Sumit
 
Hay,

Thank you.

It worked. When I started Windows in Safe mode and then scaned using
antivirus and Spybot and AdAware, it showed that Trojan.startpage
virus is causing this trouble. After cleaning it, now my homepage is
as I wanted.

Thank you again for your valuable help.

Regards,
Sumit
 
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