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Originally posted by Ian
Probably not what you want to hear but this computer I'm on right now had a similar problem. It doesn't now, I formatted it.

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i have a pop up which wants me to connect to an international dial up. I shall be formatting later to get rid of it as Norton etc havnt detected it.

If you browse the web and find out which variant of spyware it is, go onto the Symantec website and you should be able to find a removal guide, telling you which registry keys etc to remove

Probably not what you want to hear but this computer I'm on right now had a similar problem. It doesn't now, I formatted it.

It seems I've spoken too soon.

The problem still persists. Ad-aware, Spy-bot, the CWShredder thing Richie offered have not got rid of this little b@stard.

Anymore ideas anyone? :(

Thanks all, the new version of Ad-aware seems to have done it. Cheers :thumbs:

I like said, i had Ad-aware 6 (i think it was) but this new one SE personal or whatever seems to be doing the job :thumbs:

so far :

42 registry values
15 registry keys

=57 New Critical objects:!

Its a variant of Cool Web Search.

Use this program to try and remove any traces of it:

http://choicecomputing.homestead.com/files/CWShredder.zip

If that fails use this:


http://tomcoyote.org/hjt/HijackThis.exe

Get firefox loads betta then IE ;)

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

p.s im a legend :)

forget that.

go to http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/ and download ad-aware.

Also, go into your control panel as mentioned above, remove anything that follows the example of:

internet shearch
ad-searcher
sidebar search
etc
that should sort ya out

I have norton 2003 and have recently updated and ran both adaware and spy-bot.

It's pishing me off big time.

Changing it wont delete it completely, you have spyware on ur computer, it will have changed your registry and is very hard to get rid of, all i can advice is run an updated antivirus program and download a program called adaware, if you run Norton antivirus it will tell you how to get rid of the spyware but its quite a lengthy process as it usually involves changing your registry and deleting a lot of files

Start,

Settings,

Control Panel

Internet Options

Set Homepage.

[Edited on 08-10-2004 by Sri5]

Hi all,

Everytime I start IE my homepage keeps getting wiped out and replaced by this shit: http://www.searchportal.info/10022/

Does anyone know where the Internet Explorer homepage file thing is kept on my hard drive so i can delete it?