Dave1682
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Registered: 18th Jul 04
Location: Cleveland, UK
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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?
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Sri5
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Registered: 8th Jul 04
Location: Hull
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Start,
Settings,
Control Panel
Internet Options
Set Homepage.
[Edited on 08-10-2004 by Sri5]
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James
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Registered: 1st Jun 02
Location: Surrey
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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
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Dave1682
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Registered: 18th Jul 04
Location: Cleveland, UK
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I have norton 2003 and have recently updated and ran both adaware and spy-bot.
It's pishing me off big time.
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Bart
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Registered: 19th Aug 02
Location: Midsomer Norton, Bristol Avon
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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
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Bart
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Registered: 19th Aug 02
Location: Midsomer Norton, Bristol Avon
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p.s im a legend 
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CraigyG
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Registered: 20th Oct 02
Location: Newcastle Upon Tyne
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Get firefox loads betta then IE 
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
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Richie
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Registered: 3rd Dec 02
Location: Newport, Wales
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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
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Dave1682
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Registered: 18th Jul 04
Location: Cleveland, UK
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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 
so far :
42 registry values
15 registry keys
=57 New Critical objects
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Dave1682
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Registered: 18th Jul 04
Location: Cleveland, UK
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Thanks all, the new version of Ad-aware seems to have done it. Cheers
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Dave1682
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Registered: 18th Jul 04
Location: Cleveland, UK
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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? 
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Ian
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Registered: 28th Aug 99
Location: Liverpool
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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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James
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Registered: 1st Jun 02
Location: Surrey
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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
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Marc
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Registered: 11th Aug 02
Location: York
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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.
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Dave1682
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Registered: 18th Jul 04
Location: Cleveland, UK
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quote:
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.
Ian, you are right. I didn't want to hear this!
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