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re: IE home page Saturday, January 17, 2004 at 7:14 pm Posted by Tommy (65 messages posted) try this link ...... extract it.. it will fix your problem. :) http://www.merijn.org/files/cwshredder.zip On Saturday, January 17, 2004 at 6:49 pm, Bob wrote: >I am unable to change my home page in Internet Explorer. >It is currently set at "msn.com" but if i try to change it, it automatically revert >to msn.com. >I go to tool>internet options>change the url to something else, i click "apply" my >new url shows fine then I click "ok" but if I go right back to tool>internet>options >msn.com shows up again. >Thx for your help try this link ...... extract it.. it will fix your problem. :) http://www.merijn.org/files/cwshredder.zip [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: IE home page Saturday, January 17, 2004 at 8:38 pm Posted by Bob (2 messages posted) No, it didn't help. I don't think it's a virus problem, I tried modifying the start page name in the registry and it won't let me (cannot edit start page). On Saturday, January 17, 2004 at 7:14 pm, Tommy wrote: >try this link ...... extract it.. it will fix your problem. :) http://www.merijn.org/files/cwshredder.zip > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: IE home page Sunday, January 18, 2004 at 12:37 am Posted by Ms. Eagle (33640 messages posted) CWS hijacker is NOT a virus. It's a spyware trojan. There are many variants of that hijacker. The Shredder only targets that particular hijacker. Open the CWShredder and click the Check for updates tab. Once they're downloaded, close all browser windows, sign off and run it by choosing Fix. It will clean as it scans, and show you the results. Clear out your TIF and other temp files. Go to Start - Settings - Control Panel - Internet Options. Under the General tab click the Delete temporary internet files, choose to delete all Offline content. Clear out Cookies. Also, go to Start - Find - Files or folders - in the named box, type: *.tmp and choose Edit - select all - File - delete. Empty the contents of the C:\Windows\temp folder and C:\temp folder, if you have one. Empty Recycle bin. If it turns out that it isn't a CWS hijacker, run SpybotSD and Hijack This after, if need be. SpybotSD Close all running programs, install then reboot. Start it and go online and press 'search for updates' tab. (NOTE: you may need to try different mirrors, as there's often problems with servers being overloaded). Download all updates that aren't optional. Close all browser windows, then start it in Easy mode and run the scan. Then click 'Check All', and fix everything SpybotSD labels in red. Restart your computer. 'Hijack This' Unzip 'HT' into a new folder. Close all browser windows and run it offline. Double click the .Exe file to run it. Choose Scan. It will display a list. Most of the things you see listed are necessary or required entries, so don't fix anything YET, until you know which items to fix. For a description on the entries in the log, check here: HijackThisTutorial If AFTER checking the tutorial, you still need advice on what to fix or are unsure, post your log on one of these forums, and someone will advise you. Please let them know why you're posting the log, and what you've already tried. http://www.lurkhere.com/forum480.html http://forums.net-integration.net/ To help prevent further problems, I suggest you installed SpywareBlaster for now. Then check out the other link for some ideas. SpywareBlaster is one good one for protection/prevention. It doesn't need to be running to protect your system. There's also SpywareGuard, which works well in conjuntion with it. SpywareBlaster Additionally, check out this post by Tony Klein, a security expert, for other suggestions and info: So how did I get infected in the first place? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: IE home page Sunday, January 18, 2004 at 3:09 am Posted by phantom (5661 messages posted) Get this program. It stops hijack browsers. And if you want to keep your machine free of most spyware get the other Two programs. Keep Spywareblaster updated once a week as there is always new Spyware being written. http://www.wilderssecurity.com/bhblaster.html) http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareguard.html On Saturday, January 17, 2004 at 6:49 pm, Bob wrote: >I am unable to change my home page in Internet Explorer. >It is currently set at "msn.com" but if i try to change it, it automatically revert >to msn.com. >I go to tool>internet options>change the url to something else, i click "apply" my >new url shows fine then I click "ok" but if I go right back to tool>internet>options >msn.com shows up again. >Thx for your help [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