Internet Explorer problem

[Andrew]

Hi,

I don't know if this is the right group in which to ask this question. If
not, feel free to redirect me.

I've noticed in my website's statistics that when I visit the site my
browser tag is listed as "Mozilla/4.0 compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0;
sureseeker.com; HomePage; .NET CLR 1.0.3705"

My question is, is there any way I can change this information? I think the
sureseeker.com part is left over from a virus/trojan and I'd like to get rid
of it. Is this information contained in the registry and is it modifiable?

Thanks in advance!

Andrew

 

[Andrew]

Actually, I think I got it...

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet
Settings\User Agent\ Post Platform

 

[Mark V]

Andrew wrote in

Hi,

I don't know if this is the right group in which to ask this
question. If not, feel free to redirect me.

I've noticed in my website's statistics that when I visit the site
my browser tag is listed as "Mozilla/4.0 compatible; MSIE 6.0;
Windows NT 5.0; sureseeker.com; HomePage; .NET CLR 1.0.3705"

My question is, is there any way I can change this information? I
think the sureseeker.com part is left over from a virus/trojan and
I'd like to get rid of it. Is this information contained in the
registry and is it modifiable?

You might want to Google on "sureseeker". One link is
http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/archive/incidents/2000/10/msg00226.html

Tools like Ad-Aware and SpyBot Search & Destroy may be able to deal
with it (but not confirmed).