Annoying virus - IE related

Thanks for any help.

I've had this for a while and i can't seem to be able to track it down. I've done all i possibly can manually and i've used a couple of different anti-virus (mainly housecall). It just can't be detected.

What it does is it changes my home page on IE to a sick and disturbing website. For the past few days i've tried to ignore it, changing the home page to my own every time i reboot.

Does anyone have any idea how to fix this?

 

Hi Aperson
It's most likely not a virus.....but it sure feels like one I'm sure.
Very first thing I'd do is download and run Ad-aware. Post back and tell us how that goes for you.

Daizy

 

Here are two sites with information on homepage hijacking
http://www.cexx.org/hphijack.htm
http://www.spywareinfo.com/hijacked.html
This may help you understand what you are going to be doing to solve the problem.

 

Thanks, going to try it now

 

Ok. I ran the program. It Detected 4 possible browser hijack attempts, rebooting now.
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No luck. Just rebooted and got the same msg.

 

What message?

Do you mean you were taken back to the hijacked page?

Daizy

 

Yes. I deleted the 300+ things the software found, rebooted. tried to open IE and BAM, its back. I run the program again and it detects the files AGAIN. ><

On my msconfig--->startup i have a few weird things.
<no name> N:\setup.exe N:\

radc463 c:\WINDOWS\regedit.exe /s C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\radc4263.tmp <---is this it?

 

I GOT IT! It was the 2nd thing.

Thanks so much! Finally free of this thing

 

Wow!!!!
What O/S are you running?
To see what you can safely uncheck in msconfig.....see here.
You physically went to your start page and changed it to see if it would change back?

Daizy

 

Second thing? Your temp file?
Maybe time for a little housecleaning?

Daizy

 

it's all good now ^^ any suggestions on a free good anti-virus (norton and mcaffe don't work for me, says corrupt, strange)

 

Go look at your other thread. Yep...gave you suggestions. In particular, AVG.

Daizy

 

Yep...

Yep, Daizy's right about that one...


Get yourself a free web-based antivirus, where you only have to download 6MB!


get it on http://www.grisoft.com/


It does excellent job on my machine.

Detects practically anything.

Get One!