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healimonster
01-01-2004, 05:20 PM
Recently some odd things have been happening with my PC.

My homepage was changed to some search page I have never been to. I am very diligent about not clicking yes to any pop up or download box, so this kinda shocked me. Who knows though, maybe late at night drunk I might have by accident so I didn't dwell on it.

Then twice today when I go to Google did a search for a store chain. the search finished and i clicked on the store I wanted. Instead of going to the stores home page I was brought to another search page for some random searching website.

I thought it was an error on my part so I did it again searching for a different chain and when I clicked on the link I was brought to another search engine.

What gives?

Any one had this problem?

Any idea how my computer got this problem?

TheKiler
01-01-2004, 05:35 PM
Spyware... use spybot.

Smurfette
01-01-2004, 05:39 PM
Originally posted by healimonster@1 January 2004 - 17:20
What gives?You've got some nasty program on your computer doing that.


Any one had this problem?Plenty of people.


Any idea how my computer got this problem?Someone installed a program they shouldn't have.

TRshady
01-01-2004, 05:41 PM
Originally posted by TheKiler@1 January 2004 - 17:35
Spyware... use spybot.
Agreed, or Ad-aware (http://www.lavasoft.com) as I prefere to use.

Snee
01-01-2004, 06:05 PM
Originally posted by TRshady+1 January 2004 - 18:41--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (TRshady &#064; 1 January 2004 - 18:41)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-TheKiler@1 January 2004 - 17:35
Spyware... use spybot.
Agreed, or Ad-aware (http://www.lavasoft.com) as I prefere to use. [/b][/quote]
Use both, and also spywareblaster (http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html), it&#39;s a great preventive proggie, which works nicely together with Spybot.

Also Immunize yer system with Spybot, while yer at it.

EDit: link for Spybot (http://security.kolla.de/)

EDit again: and get this too, just in case: hijack This (http://mjc1.com/mirror/hjt/)

chinook_apache
01-01-2004, 07:00 PM
i have had these search page problems too.
i havent ever used spybot or adware or what have you...
all i do is go in to the registry and delte the files from there...it works a treat and everything is back to normal...so say i type an invalid url address it will not redirect me to a seach page but it will give me the orginal 404 error or the page cannot be displayed.

should i be using the ad ware destroyers if i can over come via the regsitry?

I.am
01-01-2004, 07:03 PM
well all Spybot does is finds the keys in the registry matching to its database(having common spyware&#39;s and adware&#39;s) and gives you the option to delete it.

Snee
01-01-2004, 07:13 PM
Originally posted by chinook_apache@1 January 2004 - 20:00
i have had these search page problems too.
i havent ever used spybot or adware or what have you...
all i do is go in to the registry and delte the files from there...it works a treat and everything is back to normal...so say i type an invalid url address it will not redirect me to a seach page but it will give me the orginal 404 error or the page cannot be displayed.

should i be using the ad ware destroyers if i can over come via the regsitry?
With spybot and spyblaster you can prevent them from ever getting into your registry.

Also, hijackthis and such lets you find more than you&#39;d find on your own.

And apart from that, it&#39;s rather easy to miss an entry here or there, or miss something that doesn&#39;t make much of a nuisance of itself, if you only do it manually.

Dapadipz
01-01-2004, 07:38 PM
I Just Use Spybot & Ad-Aware But Also Never Install Suspicious Programs Or Click Yes On Those Security Warnings - Works Fine For Me :D :lol: Watch Out For The Security Warnings And Dialer Downloads When Searching For *coff coff* porn ;) :lol: :D

Snee
01-01-2004, 07:59 PM
Get spywareblaster and hijackthis too, they are both free and quite excellent IMO.

healimonster
01-03-2004, 08:54 PM
Adaware worked and I think solved the problem.

I will see if it comes back.

Spyware would freeze half way through running it.

hmmm.