re: IE compromised by hit.lookupanything.biz
Thursday, April 21, 2005 at 1:05 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by DEX
(11745 messages posted)
Gary
This should take them out..
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ToolbarCop, to remove the unwanted Toolbands
ToolbarCop v2.4
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/toolbarcop.htm
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Spybot from http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?lang=en&page=download
Besure to get the update for Spybot, they update it all the time.
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?showtopic=11150
NOTE******** run Spybot in SafeMode ( F8 key at boot. )
Because Windows will not let any program edit a file that Windows is running.
Most Spyware/worms/virus,etc. are TSR programs...(load at boot)(but they don't load
in safemode)
or from:
SpyBot
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This should keep them off
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Spyware Blaster.It's FREE, from see below
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
if you get a error ( it can't find mscomctl.ocx file download the one below)
http://www.spywareinfo.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=6756
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On Thursday, April 21, 2005 at 12:13 pm, Gary Thonerfelt wrote:
>My Internet explorer had somehow gotten searchby bar installed, and I do not know
>if this is related. I removed the searchby software, but I still have an annoying
>problem with a missed hit in the search, everytime my IE goes 404, hit.lookupanything.biz
>takes over and a popup to change my home page to www.lookupanything.biz appears...
>while my original window shows the lookupanything search engine.... this is INCREDIBLY
>annoying, as my history has become overloaded with hit.lookupanything.biz addresses....
>does anyone know a fix for this... tried removing history,cookies, and even reloaded
>IE all to no avail. And the only place hit.lookupanything.biz appears in my registry
>is in the windows URL history.
>
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