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re: Help! Spyware! Sunday, September 28, 2003 at 10:55 pm Posted by Justin (13 messages posted) There are several free programs (scroll to bottom of this text for direct links if you don't want to read this) to be extremely decent, and theres also no catch except asking for donations and for Adaware's product limitations, but this program works effectively to most users needs... The programs are Spybot, Adaware, and Spyware Gaurd. Spyware Gaurds is the only program which actively prevents spyware therefore having to be run always for its protection (minimizes to corner). Spybot and Adaware are programs you have to manually run and they will detect spyware just as a virus scanner detects viruses, you likewise have to upgrade on a constant basis to keep maximum protection against spyware. Good luck, and feel free to email me to let me know if it resolved it, or if the problem is still there. PS: Theres also a program from wilders security called Browser Hijacker Blaster, which may be of interest but I believe these 3 programs will resolve your problem. Heres some applicable links you may find of interest if you want to learn more about spyware. http://www.c4c.com/spyware.htm http://www.spywareinfo.com/articles/hijacked/ http://www.it-solve.com/SolveITNews8.htm http://download.com.com/3000-2144-10214379.html?tag=lst-0-2 http://download.com.com/3000-2144-10194058.html?tag=lst-0-1 http://www.www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareguard.html [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Help! Spyware! Sunday, September 28, 2003 at 10:58 pm Posted by Steve (38 messages posted) Spybot Search and DestroyBesure and run update first On Sunday, September 28, 2003 at 10:02 pm, Liz wrote: >Help! Recently my browsers "homepage" (defined in the Internet Options) will change >upon every other or so reboot to this address: >http://www.the-huns-yellow-pages.com/ > >How do I go about removing this problem? Thank you for your input! > >Liz [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Help! Spyware! Monday, September 29, 2003 at 1:15 pm Posted by Justin (13 messages posted) Also, on the update matter, when you do update before you do your scans immediately thereafter it'll say X amount of detections. Upon close and restart of spybot & adaware, those new detections will be added. In other words, once you "UPDATE"... you need to restart the application for those to take effect. (applies to adaware and spybot) [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum