Problems with IE homepage stuck on res://lhuvg.dll/index.html#9667

[Guest]

A friend's IE has been very sick lately. When he opne it up, the browser goes to the following URL:

res://lhuvg.dll/index.html#96676

Now, I know little about the resource (res protocol, but the general behavior makes no sense. The page that opens up looks like those "search the web" pages, with a million links that try to sell you things. If you try to type in something on the URL line, like yahoo.com, it comes back with an error (showing URL: res://etvdm.dll/http_404.htm), and then asks you if you want to go to yahoo.com --- and provides a working link to it.

Wait-- it gets worse. If you go into internet options and change the home URL, it does not seem to save it. When you close down the browser and re-open, it comes back again with that res://.... URL above. In fact, that seems to be the default URL.

It seems that something has captured IE and won't let go. And by the way, I search for those DLL files as shown in the URLs and could find nothing.

Any clues would be appreciated. Ad-aware does not clean that problem.

 

[LuckyStrike]

Take a look here deltareum.

Homepage set to res://random.dll/index.html#randomnumber
Removal Instructions and Help
http://www.pchell.com/support/onlythebest.shtml
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A friend's IE has been very sick lately. When he opne it up, the browser goes to the following URL:

res://lhuvg.dll/index.html#96676

Now, I know little about the resource (res protocol, but the general

behavior makes no sense. The page that opens up looks like those "search the
web" pages, with a million links that try to sell you things. If you try to
type in something on the URL line, like yahoo.com, it comes back with an
error (showing URL: res://etvdm.dll/http_404.htm), and then asks you if you
want to go to yahoo.com --- and provides a working link to it.

Wait-- it gets worse. If you go into internet options and change the home

URL, it does not seem to save it. When you close down the browser and
re-open, it comes back again with that res://.... URL above. In fact, that
seems to be the default URL.

It seems that something has captured IE and won't let go. And by the way,

I search for those DLL files as shown in the URLs and could find nothing.

 

[Wiked_smart]

I have the same problem that your have except, I have not
tried to search for the .DLL files. What should I look
for to fix this? Any help that you could give would be
helpful.

-----Original Message-----
A friend's IE has been very sick lately. When he opne it

up, the browser goes to the following URL:

res://lhuvg.dll/index.html#96676

Now, I know little about the resource (res protocol,

but the general behavior makes no sense. The page that
opens up looks like those "search the web" pages, with a
million links that try to sell you things. If you try to
type in something on the URL line, like yahoo.com, it
comes back with an error (showing URL:
res://etvdm.dll/http_404.htm), and then asks you if you
want to go to yahoo.com --- and provides a working link
to it.

Wait-- it gets worse. If you go into internet options

and change the home URL, it does not seem to save it.
When you close down the browser and re-open, it comes
back again with that res://.... URL above. In fact, that
seems to be the default URL.

It seems that something has captured IE and won't let

go. And by the way, I search for those DLL files as shown
in the URLs and could find nothing.

 

[Guest]

See Lucky_strike's post above yours. I am going to try the fix he points to tomorrow, and if I find something from that experience worth posting, I will post it as a reply.

Thanks, Lucky_strike!

 

[LuckyStrike]

YW deltareum. ;-)
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See Lucky_strike's post above yours. I am going to try the fix he points

to tomorrow, and if I find something from that experience worth posting, I
will post it as a reply.