Hi-Jacked Home Page

A web site has hi-jacked my Grandson's home page. He's running Windows 98 and IE6. Any suggestions how he can take back his home page?

 

Moving this to the Security section.

- download, update, run Ad-aware and then the same with Spybot, Search & Destroy.

- run a virus scan using the RAV online scanner and let it clean any bad things it finds.

- set the home page back to where you want it.

- Use Spybot to lock the home page so it can't be changed without unlocking.

If it gets hijacked again (possible) then download Hijack This, run it without taking any action, and copy/paste the log file here.

Note: if you need help locating any of the resources, a quick search on here will give you links.

 

heres the links within my signatue and free. or I should say contribute ware,, and do not nag


Hi Newt
"Use Spybot to lock the home page so it can't be changed without unlocking. "
that and similur tweeks do nothing to protect except again another uses, ? I suppose HKCU_Hide_HomePage.reg would work, I havent tried it

SpywareGuard sure can ,once things are cleaned up
http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareguard.html

this is a great read
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
and also
So how did I get infected in the first place:
http://www.net-integration.net/cgi-bin/forum/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=38;t=3051
Regards
Lonny

 

Thanks for the info. Question, you mentioned a lock feature for the homepage in IE. I can't find this setting. Can you help?

Use Spybot to lock the home page so it can't be changed without unlocking." that and similur tweeks do nothing to protect except again another uses, ? I suppose HKCU_Hide_HomePage.reg would work, I havent tried it

 

Hello bobemartin,

That SpyBot "locking the home page" feature is for mult-user systems. Does nothing against outside attempts. Tom Coyote's turorial http://tomcoyote.org/SPYBOT/

StartPageGuard is a preventative from the outside.
http://www.webattack.com/get/startpageguard.shtml

Regards - Charles

 

Sorry for my misspelling . HKCU_Hide_HomePage.reg
Is at the MVPwinhelp2000 and is just a reg tweek,

I was mentioning it to Newt not you
becouse It would be better to use spywareguard or StartPageGuard

But if its already hijacked they wont do any good,, Is it ?
Lonny

 

"Use Spybot to lock the home page so it can't be changed without unlocking. "
that and similur tweeks do nothing to protect except again another uses,...

Thanks Lonny and others. That makes sense once you mention it. Gave me a real DOH moment that I hadn't thought the thing thru before offering advice.

 

Hi All and Newt

Ive got ya topped as for the dah moments by-far with no doubt in my mind ,you and most the other considerate folks that help here,, gee even some that post for the first time
regards
Lonny

 

Home page can be fixed without a program with this file

Home page hijacking can also be prevented without a program using this file

 

Hello rcerrato,

Thanks for the reference, I'll save it for people that don't want to use a 3rd party program like StartpageGuard - see my ealier post, which does the same thing and in the same way with the difference that it resets the Home page to whatever you set it to originally.

Regards - Charles