searchV has taken over my homepage

[Guest]

searchV has taken over my internet explorer home page
everytime i reset it, its fine till i restart
on restart, searchV is back to my homepage
searchand destroy 1.2 has recognized searchV as a problem
and immunizes it..but upon restart it returns again

please help

 

[Chuck]

searchV has taken over my internet explorer home page
everytime i reset it, its fine till i restart
on restart, searchV is back to my homepage
searchand destroy 1.2 has recognized searchV as a problem
and immunizes it..but upon restart it returns again

please help

Next try HijackThis. Start with this article:
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?showtopic=5187


Chuck
I hate spam - PLEASE get rid of the spam before emailing me!
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.

 

[Box134]

searchV has taken over my internet explorer home page
everytime i reset it, its fine till i restart
on restart, searchV is back to my homepage
searchand destroy 1.2 has recognized searchV as a problem
and immunizes it..but upon restart it returns again

From the SearchV web site:

Quote:

Question:

Help me please! It's urgent! Someone has changed my Home Page setting and
every time I reload my computer it's changed again. Please, tell my how I
can stop it.


Answers:

Evidently there's a program at your computer that is launched every time
your computer is rebooted and that changes settings in your system. The
first thing to do is to install the latest version of an antivirus program.
Then, as I see it, you should use the freeware program HijackThis. It is an
easy to use general homepage hijackers detector and remover. It can
automatically change settings back to default after they've been modified.
For example:
04 -HKLM\..\Run:[sys]regedit/s C:\WINDOWS\sys.reg - This is the way the
homepages setting is usually modified at rebooting. Check this and press
'fix checked' at HijackThis.
Unfortunately Microsoft software prove to contain all the more loopholes
that allow trespassers penetrate into people's computers. The only efficient
defence against them is your vigilance. Don't visit the resources on the web
that you're not sure of. Do not install programs of unknown origin. Don't
allow unauthorized users at your computer. Download and install latest
versions of antivirus software in time. The net is a dangerous place for
those who cannot defend themselves.
More Useful links:

Mike Healan page
Browser Hijack Blaster

Andrew Jordan
Security Consultant
SearchV

End Quote

 

[Jim Macklin]

You have to use SpyBot Search and Destroy to find, then
click next and remove the program. Then if you set immunize
it will block further attempts to hijack your browser. But
you gave to remove the current infection first.



| | > searchV has taken over my internet explorer home page
| > everytime i reset it, its fine till i restart
| > on restart, searchV is back to my homepage
| > searchand destroy 1.2 has recognized searchV as a
problem
| > and immunizes it..but upon restart it returns again
|
| From the SearchV web site:
|
| Quote:
|
| Question:
|
| Help me please! It's urgent! Someone has changed my Home
Page setting and
| every time I reload my computer it's changed again.
Please, tell my how I
| can stop it.
|
|
| Answers:
|
| Evidently there's a program at your computer that is
launched every time
| your computer is rebooted and that changes settings in
your system. The
| first thing to do is to install the latest version of an
antivirus program.
| Then, as I see it, you should use the freeware program
HijackThis. It is an
| easy to use general homepage hijackers detector and
remover. It can
| automatically change settings back to default after
they've been modified.
| For example:
| 04 -HKLM\..\Run:[sys]regedit/s C:\WINDOWS\sys.reg - This
is the way the
| homepages setting is usually modified at rebooting. Check
this and press
| 'fix checked' at HijackThis.
| Unfortunately Microsoft software prove to contain all the
more loopholes
| that allow trespassers penetrate into people's computers.
The only efficient
| defence against them is your vigilance. Don't visit the
resources on the web
| that you're not sure of. Do not install programs of
unknown origin. Don't
| allow unauthorized users at your computer. Download and
install latest
| versions of antivirus software in time. The net is a
dangerous place for
| those who cannot defend themselves.
| More Useful links:
|
| Mike Healan page
| Browser Hijack Blaster
|
| Andrew Jordan
| Security Consultant
| SearchV
|
| End Quote
|
|
|
|

 

[Jim Byrd]

Hi - Follow the directions here, carefully:
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?showtopic=13977&hl=searchv If that
doesn't fix it, then:


Download HijackThis, free, here:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/hijackthis.zip

Unzip it to any convenient folder, start it then press Scan. Click on
SaveLog when it's finished which will create hijackthis.log. Now click
the Config button, then Misc Tools and click on Generate StartupList.log
which will create Startuplist.txt

Go to Spyware and Hijackware Removal Support, here:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/forums/index.php?s=8a236cdf61469fbad3bddbe810be0374&act=SF&f=11

Sign in, then copy and paste both files a message asking for assistance,
Someone will answer with detailed instructions for the removal of your
parasite(s).



For the general hijack case, the best way to start is to get Ad-Aware 6.0,
Build 181 or later, here: http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/.
Update and run this regularly to get rid of most "spyware/hijackware" on
your machine. If it has to fix things, be sure to re-boot and rerun
AdAware again and repeat this cycle until you get a clean scan. The reason
is that it may have to remove things which are currently "in use" before it
can then clean up others.

Another excellent program for this purpose is SpyBot Search and Destroy
available here: http://security.kolla.de/ SpyBot Support Forum here:
http://www.net-integration.net/cgi-bin/forums/ikonboard.cgi. I recommend
using both normally. After fixing things with SpyBot S&D, be sure to
re-boot and rerun SpyBot again and repeat this cycle until you get a clean
"no red" scan. The reason is that SpyBot sometimes has to remove things
which are currently "in use" before it can then clean up others.


Note that sometimes you need to make a judgement call about what these
programs report as spyware. See here, for example:
http://www.imilly.com/alexa.htm


Once you get this cleaned up, you might want to consider installing the
SpywareBlaster and SpywareGuard here to help prevent this kind of thing from
happening in the future:
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/spywareblaster.html (Prevents malware Active
X installs) (BTW, SpyWare Blaster is not memory resident ... no CPU or
memory load - but keep it updated) The latest version as of this writing
will prevent installation or prevent the malware from running if it is
already installed, and it provides information and fixit-links for a variety
of parasites.
http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareguard.html (Monitors for attempts to
install malware) Both Very Highly Recommended.

See if any of this helps and post back with your results.


--
Please respond in the same thread.
Regards, Jim Byrd, MS-MVP



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