Home Page Hijack

Home Page Change

I apparently visited a shady website that has now taken over my home page upon connecting to the internet. I have run SpyBot and have gone to tools - Internet options and have changed my home page back to my original ISP. But the home page Global Search keeps showing up upon connecting. Any other fixes?? Terry

 

Hi LEEWA42

Go here and download and run Hijack This.
http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads.php?cat=sp#s-p

Just be careful what you remove.

 

LEEWA42--This tutorial may help you interpret the results of a scan with HiJackThis. The most important items for a home page hijacking are those preceded by the prefix R0. In the tutorial, click on the various prefixes for an explanation.
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/htlogtutorial.html
Running a spyware detector may be helpful in deleting the malware.
AdAware
http://www.lavasoft.de/support/download/
SpybotS&D
http://security.kolla.de/

 

LEEWA42

If you want to fix your homepage problems, through your registry, the method of resetting your homepage is here and the method to lock your homepage so that it will not be taken over by the nasties is here

 

For picard and Welshjim: downloaded and ran hijackthis and adaware. seems to have solved the problem for now, no more bad guys! Thanks for the help. Terry

 

LEEWA42--Thanks for posting back. Glad to hear the good news!!
P.S. Scan with AdAware about twice a month and just before you do click on "Check for Updates Now "to keep the reference files up to date.

 

Spybot

Hello,

I also run Spyware Blaster with Spybot(you'll see in Spybot's program they recommend this). It has some good options including the homepage lock. Try it out. I also run Lavasoft's Adaware Professional and between all three of these things work well. I experience minimal popups (although some still exist - I also use Popup Stopper Pro surfing when I need more popup protection). These programs combined will not control every single problem, but it does a **** good job for most spyware BS. Spyware interference has become as bad as virus infestation. It is a real problem! I work on many peoples computer and most of the time it is spyware that is causing the most problems. Hope this helps.

Santaman58

PS always beware of what you allow these programs to erase. When in doubt - leave it. Do further testing to ensure it doen't remove necessary files you need to run certain installed programs. This takes a bit of detective work, but it is necessary.

 

P. S. Be sure to use SpyBot's immunize features.

J. M.