Hello All:

I think I have a spy in my Win98 box. I use IE6.
Everytime I open Internet Explorer( whose default homepage is set as 'about: blank' ), I get to see a webpage with many links(art, entertainment, health ...), 'n so much unwanted stuff, though the browser shows 'about blank' itself.
If I click on a link on the page, it goes to a page like http://searchx.cc/search.php?pin=58&...etball+betting (showing "Connection Problem" )
The most annoying fact is that I get popup applets telling that I'm infected with a spy, 'n when click the "Find out more", I get redirected to a page http://search.morgen.cc/search.php?p...pyware+remover (again saying "Connection Problem.. Plz. try later)

Yea. At first what I though was that the popup was of some of the spyware remover trying to warn me of some spy. But since both the links (from the webpage and the popup) point to similar sites, I understood that the popup was also fishy. Every time a I open a new browser window, or everytime I enter a new address, similar popups appear.... ugh! ..so annoying.

I tried running two free spywares removers. Though they found out some spies 'n removed them, this problem still persists.
So, I decided to try fixing it myself .

I viewed the source of the loading page. (which is attached)
I saw something like <base href="res://%43%3a%5c%57%49%4e%44%4f%57%53%5c%53%59%53%54%45%4d%5c%4a%4e%50%47%42%2e%44%4c%4c/"> on the very first line.
I uncoded the url and found it to be 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\jnpgb.dll .
So I opened the dll file using wordpad. 'n found that it had something to do with the page. After around the the first half of the doccument, I could see html code in black and white relating to the website. What am I to do next ??.. Is jnpgb.dll a standard windows file ??
Is there any onr can edit the contents of the so set 'about: blank' homepage ??

Thanx b4hand .

PS. attachment is of the source of the webpage loaded.