search engine redirection virus

[ed]

i contracted a virus i cant get rid of
it redirects my browser request to a differnt search
engine
if i search www.yahoo.com it redirects the page
to "www.royalsearch.com"
the same is true for google or the msn home page
and
when i restart my pc it now opens win media player and
the sys32 folder on it's own

 

[DVarnau]

Ed,
Royalsearch indicates the trojan, VBS.Bootconf.
See: http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/vbs.bootconf.html
That article does not give complete manual removal instructions. Update your
anti-virus program and see if it can remove it.

You could also go to http://tomcoyote.org/hjt/. Read the instructions, then
download HijackThis and post a log to the forum at
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?showforum=11
**Read the FAQ at http://www.spywareinfo.com/rd/faq before you post a log
and avoid common mistakes ;-)

It won't get rid of royalsearch, but it wouldn't hurt to download, install,
*update* and run these two programs:
Ad-aware from http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/
Spybot from http://security.kolla.de/ (Fix items in red)

Additional information at:

Dealing with Unwanted Spyware and Parasites:
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm

Regards,
Don