Homepage changes without consent, bug?

[Brendon]

When using Internet Explorer, I get a ton of the same ads,
and sometimes when I visit a site it forwards me to another
site that says "Page not found" with links to ads under it
and whatnot, when I had seen the page before it forwarded
me to a different one. When I tried going to the same
website on Mozilla, everything was fine- the browser runs
perfectly. However IE isn't perfect. Further, the homepage
keeps changing. I make the homepage one website, and it
stays like that, but then later in the day it forwards to
res://mshp.dll/index.html#22776.

I'm totally lost on this one.

 

[Ramesh [MVP]]

Brendon,

This is caused by a CoolWebSearch variant.
http://www.pestpatrol.com/PestInfo/c/coolwebsearch.asp

See: Homepage changes unexpectedly:
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/IEFAQ.htm

[CWShredder removes all the variances of this spyware]
http://www.merijn.org/files/CWShredder.exe

--
Ramesh - Microsoft MVP
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k

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Prevent Spyware from being installed:
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/Malware_Defence.htm

Prevent malware from being installed - Part 2:
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/MalwareDefence_Example.htm
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When using Internet Explorer, I get a ton of the same ads,
and sometimes when I visit a site it forwards me to another
site that says "Page not found" with links to ads under it
and whatnot, when I had seen the page before it forwarded
me to a different one. When I tried going to the same
website on Mozilla, everything was fine- the browser runs
perfectly. However IE isn't perfect. Further, the homepage
keeps changing. I make the homepage one website, and it
stays like that, but then later in the day it forwards to
res://mshp.dll/index.html#22776.

I'm totally lost on this one.

 

[KL1]

-----Original Message-----
When using Internet Explorer, I get a ton of the same ads,
and sometimes when I visit a site it forwards me to another
site that says "Page not found" with links to ads under it
and whatnot, when I had seen the page before it forwarded
me to a different one. When I tried going to the same
website on Mozilla, everything was fine- the browser runs
perfectly. However IE isn't perfect. Further, the homepage
keeps changing. I make the homepage one website, and it
stays like that, but then later in the day it forwards to
res://mshp.dll/index.html#22776.

I'm totally lost on this one.
.