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For some reason when ever I resatart my computer I get certain websites added to my favirites list. Also it changes my home page. I ran a virus scan and it dosent appear to be a virus or adware. Can anyone help me please. Its weird and this has never happened to me before. Can this be trojan horse of some kind.
Any help would be appreciated....Thanx in advance.
O yea does anyone know how to change the right click links when you click on a website.
If its spyware shouldnt ad-aware get rid of it? Just curious. I mean I will download it if I have to but im running low on gigs you know what I mean.
Ad-Aware and Spybot search and destroy will solve your problem.
HiJack this can cause you problems if you delete the wrong entry and wouldnt recommend it for someone who dosent know what they are doing.
Somehow ad-aware misses.. try Spybot Search and Destroy (as mentioned by slick 8790). I personally use these two! There are spywares spybot can get rid of which ad-aware cannot and vice versa.
These hijacking problems are very common when you visit porn sites...(so i guess if you dont want to be hi jacked avoid these pornsites!)
Try hijackthis (as mentioned again by slick 8790) to prevent hijack from taking in the first place!(its a freeware)
Also ever heard of anti trojans? The Cleaner by Moosoft is a good one!
What website does it change your default home page to? This can greatly help us identify exactly what program is executing the changes. A friend of mine just went through the CoolSearch dilemma where it did the same thing. In any event, try Spybot like the others said. I doubt you'll have a problem with your web settings changing from this trojan/spyware anymore.
Come on are you kiddin me...its a really lame exuse for being lazy...you say you have 'gigs' and these softwares are not even 5 mbQuote:
I mean I will download it if I have to but im running low on gigs you know what I mean.
Just download it, update and scan
peace
Could be he has download limited ISP account.. and just don't know the dif between MB and GB.. I used to have the problem of.. at the end of the MB I still had a lot of Month left.. bit like my pay..Quote:
I mean I will download it if I have to but im running low on gigs you know what I mean.
cheers
The website that they change it to is Nova****.com. Why I don't know it frekin stupid. I was kidding with the whole I have low gigis thing. And yes I can tell the difference between GB from MB. Again I was just kidding. But thanks for the information I will be sure to either download spybot or hijackthis. Just out of curiousity which one is better.
Thanx Bye
They are different applications.... Hijack this displays start up keys in your registry, and you can manually delete them. Be careful.. :)
Spybot compares registry keys, among other things, to an updatable database, and lets you decide if you want to delete them.... it work more like an antivirus. Spybot also has a feature called "immunize" which blocks against spyware listed in it's database.
Hijack This and Spybot Search and destroy are two programs that no Windows user should do without. I use them both, along with WinTasks 4 and Ad-Aware.
Yea I tried the Spybot S&D. And for some reason I still have it. Its weird can anyone tell me if there is someway that I ca manually remove it?
I don't know about manually removing it, but ad-aware will remove it, and ad-aware has an uninstall that actually works!
Is ad-aware and S&D both updated?Quote:
Yea I tried the Spybot S&D. And for some reason I still have it.
Both progs have an update function, I know with Spybot s&d it check for updates for the definitions as well as the core prog.. current version is 1.2..
BTW.. havent had problems uninstalling spybot.. some of my customers get a bit funny if you leave any "Unusual" Progs behind.. so I use it and remove it.. delete it's prog Files folder job 99.9% done.. . extra time goes on their bill.. to bad too sad.. the good customer read the instructions and I only visit once in a while to have a Beer..
Cheers
OK,
You have good advice so far, so please use it.
1. Update AdAware and Spybot S&D and your AV.
2. Reboot into safe mode and run them all again.
3. Get WinPatrol from http://www.winpatrol.com install it and check "Startup Programs" and "IE Helpers" (BHOs) look for items that refer to the malware you describe. I would kill all the BHOs you will be prompted to re-install as and when you need them :) RUN IN SAFE MODE
4. Go to http://www.merijn.org/downloads.html and get "CWShredder" and "Startuplist"... run them both and look for anything related to your malware in "Startuplist" You must not have any browser windows open. RUN IN SAFE MODE
5. Go to http://www.webattack.com/get/hostadmin.html and clear anything suspicious in the Windows Hosts folder.
6.Reboot
7.Run HijackThis again and post the log file here and I will look at it for you.
Good luck