Several responses have mentioned Spybot Search and Destroy for removing
spyware. This is an excellent program, but removing spyware is not all that
it does.
Open the program in Adavanced mode and run the update. Then run the Search
and destry module after updating to remove any spyware. Next click on the
Immunize icon. Then on the right clck on the button to immunize. This will
set a killbit that will not allow spyware to install. Below the immunize
section is a section to prevent the hijacking problem you speak of, make
sure you also run that.
For extra protection there is another program called "SpywareBlaster" that
you can also install and run. It too sets a killbit to prevent Spyware from
installing.
An interesting note: If you already have SpywareBlaster installed when you
go to the immunize page in SB Search and Destroy, SB will let you know that
you have it installed and it also tells you that it will give you much more
control over active X componenets - pretty cool I thought.
Here is where you can get these 2 programs:
SpyBot Search and Destroy - http://spybot.eon.net.au/
Spyware Blaster - http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
Please read the following note:
If you get an error that "MSCOMCTL.OCX" cannot be found, then use the
following installer to copy the file to your system:
MSCOMCTL Installer:
http://www.spywareinfo.con/downloads/tools/missingfilesetup.exe
Fran - feel free to email me if you need more help
----- Original Message -----
From: "Huonga3TCV" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 4:00 PM
Subject: Re: Internet Access Hijacked!
> "The address that keeps popping up as my home page is
> "youfindall.net/344012" Please help! "
> Above is the email message one of our customers sent to our help line. A
> phone call to the man revealed that his Internet access is hijacked by a
> certain website. His default IE homepage was wiped out and replaced by
> "youfindall.net/344012". The following actions were taken (given to man
on
> phone) and proved useless:
> 1. Reconfigure his Internet Properties to remove the above address and
> re-enter his default webpage.
> 2. After rebooting and above step didn't work, went back to Internet
> Properties and changed default to "Use Blank."
> 3. Then accessed Registry and did a search (Find) for the above address.
> Found one entry, deleted it. Win.ini showed no entry.
> 4. Closed Registry and went to My Computer and searched directories for
> above address.
>
> ==>
> Emie,
> Are you sure your customer has found out all of Keys, Values and Data in
the
> Registry, where the address is located. I doubt that. When you are doing a
> search in the Registry just remember to check all the check boxes (keys,
> values and data). About 2 weeks ago I experienced absolutely the same
> problem as your customer. I also did a search in the Registry and found
out
> the address, but not only one entry found as you said, I found about 3 or
4.
> After I have them deleted and set my homepage to About Blank every think
is
> OK now.
> So my suggestion is that let your customer do a search again if he/she
> didn't check all of the check boxes. Hope this help.
> Huynh Minh Huong
> Email: [log in to unmask]
>
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