I had the same problem before. I took a tip from someone
in the newsgroup and downloaded StartPage Guard. You can
download this through download.com for free.
Another option has something to do with changing
something in RegEdit. The freeware I mentioned above
will do this automatically.
Download/install/run Ad-Aware from: http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
This will detect any spyware on your system. When you run Ad-Aware, click on
the ref update to get the latest up-to-date ref file, run Ad-Aware and
delete everything it finds.
If you still have problems, download/run HijackThis from: http://www.merijn.org/
Be very careful with this program though. Do not remove anything that is
referenced by it until you get advice on what to remove as it will list some
good items as well as bad ones.
See http://mjc1.com/mirror/hjt/#quick and read the quick start on how to
create a log file that can be sent to a forum that can provide assistance on
removal of unwanted problems.
Post the logs to an appropriate NG here where they specialize in
spyware/hijacker removal: http://forums.spywareinfo.com/
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