Infected by new virus ?

[Jeff]

My home compouter seems to be infected by a new virus that
keeps setting my home page to "about:blank" and installing
shortcuts on my desktop. Regardless of how many times I
delete these shortcuts and reset my homepage they keep
changing on me.

I have downloaded all the available patches from the
microsoft web site and from my virus protection software
suppplier but nothing has made a dent in the problem. Any
ideas?

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Try these programs to check for any spyware that may be on your system:

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

Try SpyWareBlaster to stop intrusions:

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

Also see the following links:

http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/security/articles/spyware.asp

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Will Denny
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
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| My home compouter seems to be infected by a new virus that
| keeps setting my home page to "about:blank" and installing
| shortcuts on my desktop. Regardless of how many times I
| delete these shortcuts and reset my homepage they keep
| changing on me.
|
| I have downloaded all the available patches from the
| microsoft web site and from my virus protection software
| suppplier but nothing has made a dent in the problem. Any
| ideas?