Where is Microsoft's patch to block IE hijackers and what works to remove current hijackers

[harvey ward]

Hi folks:
I have XP Professional... guess I ventured a little to far for information
while using a few Search Engines and got slapped good for it!

I have the following protection software: Norton Antivirus 2004
SpyHunter
SpyBot

I have the following IE hijackers: WWWCoolSearch
ShopNav
2020Search
RapidBlaster residual
files

I've tried everything, including Bellsouth and Microsoft Tech Support to
reset and lock my IE home website address. Whatever we reset, in just one
panel, the hijacker overrides the default web address.
I tried following Symantec's ShopNav removal only to find the run cmd files
to be entered do not exist! I can't seem to get back with Symantec to tell
them this.
I've run all the above protection software and set then to delete or destroy
those hijackers from my system. But every reboot, they're right back there
again and now I have a new one which I haven't figured out yet hijacking my
home page's address with: res://fxsmw.dll/index.hmtl#22776 !!!

I already spent $400 last year recovering from the W32SoBig virus which
destroyed my Millennium system and thought with professional guidance that
XP Professional would be more trouble free!
I am used to COBOL, HCOBOL, COBOL II, IMS, DB2, Assembler, RPG, CICS online
applications and been retired 12 years. This new stuff fries brains! HELP!
I am too old for this. LOL

If I have to go through what I did last year and since this computer is a
PII with 384k ram, 700Mghtz with 20 gig drive only 25 percent used... does
anybody have a high powered "magnetic impulse" gun to put this physically
trusty little old lady asleep peacefully and painlessly? I promise i will
buy a Linux system next time.


DeafyHarv

 

[Willie]

This should help...
Hijackthis: http://tomcoyote.com/hjt/


Willie

 

[WinGuy]

Hi folks:
I have XP Professional... guess I ventured a little to far for information
while using a few Search Engines and got slapped good for it!

I have the following protection software: Norton Antivirus 2004
SpyHunter
SpyBot

I have the following IE hijackers: WWWCoolSearch
ShopNav
2020Search
RapidBlaster residual
files

I've tried everything, including Bellsouth and Microsoft Tech Support to
reset and lock my IE home website address. Whatever we reset, in just one
panel, the hijacker overrides the default web address.
I tried following Symantec's ShopNav removal only to find the run cmd files
to be entered do not exist! I can't seem to get back with Symantec to tell
them this.
I've run all the above protection software and set then to delete or destroy
those hijackers from my system. But every reboot, they're right back there
again and now I have a new one which I haven't figured out yet hijacking my
home page's address with: res://fxsmw.dll/index.hmtl#22776 !!!

I already spent $400 last year recovering from the W32SoBig virus which
destroyed my Millennium system and thought with professional guidance that
XP Professional would be more trouble free!
I am used to COBOL, HCOBOL, COBOL II, IMS, DB2, Assembler, RPG, CICS online
applications and been retired 12 years. This new stuff fries brains! HELP!
I am too old for this. LOL

If I have to go through what I did last year and since this computer is a
PII with 384k ram, 700Mghtz with 20 gig drive only 25 percent used... does
anybody have a high powered "magnetic impulse" gun to put this physically
trusty little old lady asleep peacefully and painlessly? I promise i will
buy a Linux system next time.


DeafyHarv

Oooh, those are old languages!

I'm too old to type it all again ... so see if this thread helps solve your
pesky pests:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...43W4.2126%40newssvr27.news.prodigy.com&rnum=1

Best of luck!