Start up problem

[jbrochu]

When I turn on system I now have something that has taken
over the first screen and opens up Windoew Media and then
opens up the internet and changes my internet start up
screen from yahoo to something I have not heard of. How
do I eliminate the file that does this.

 

[Rob Najuch]

I reccomend you take the following three steps. This will
require you to make changes to the registry, so be
carefull. If you are not comfortable with working in the
registry, do not complete that step. It may not be needed.

1) download and run ad-aware from http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
This program will search your computer for "Spyware".
More than likely the culpret of your problem would be
found by this program.

2) Download and run HiJack This from
http://www.tomcoyote.org/hjt/
This program also searches for spyware, and prevents
applications and web pages from resetting your home page.

3) If these two methods do not work, you might want to
check the registry to see which programs are running at
startup.
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 137367 will help you
with this.

-Rob
Mister IT Guy