homepage hijacker

[Paula]

I recently installed the microsoft beta spyware because I
had a homepage hijacker. The spyware found it, but has not
yet removed the hijacker - it continues to come back. I
have tried my virus scanner, Yahoo's spyware and lavasoft
spyware and none of them have been able to remove it. Does
anyone have a suggestion on how to get rid of the hijacker?

 

[Bill Sanderson]

Can you say more that would help us identify what particular hijacker is in
place on your machine?

What site does it take you to?

 

[Daro]

Same for mine and it s the "about:blank"
Please make it go away!

 

[Ron Kinner]

Get HijackThis.exe from
http://www.tomcoyote.com/hjt/HijackThis/exe

SCAN your system and SAVE LOG then send me the log as an
attachment. I will look at it and tell you how to get rid
of it.

So far MS AntiSpy is a dismal failure when it comes to
CoolWebSearch, VX2, and About:Blank. Hopefully it will
learn about them as time goes by.

Ron Kinner MVP Servers

rkinner AT att DOT net

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP IE/OE]

I recently installed the microsoft beta spyware because I
had a homepage hijacker. The spyware found it, but has not
yet removed the hijacker - it continues to come back. I
have tried my virus scanner, Yahoo's spyware and lavasoft
spyware and none of them have been able to remove it. Does
anyone have a suggestion on how to get rid of the hijacker?

First, if you don't have WinXP SP2, get LSP-Fix - a free program to repair
damaged Winsock 2 stacks
http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm
save it because you might need to repair the Winsock 2 stacks after removing
the culprit.
For WinXP SP2 this command will restore the Winsock stacks if you can't
connect after clearing the malware.
Go to Start | Run and type
CMD
In the command window type
netsh winsock reset

Then get CWShredder
http://www.intermute.com/products/cwshredder.html

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[Guest]

Try using Aluria's Spyware Illeminator. I use both this
one and Lavasoft's Adaware (since it is free) for double
the protection (in theory). Lavasoft would not remove
a few of these for me either, but Aluria's program did.
It cost $30 but well worth the money.