I've had it with IE whatever version.
Yesterday after I found the P2 Asimo stuff, I was looking
for something with Google. The usual dead sites showed up
and I thought nothing of it.
Last night I went to look for something and my homepage
was redirected to an unwanted search engine. I can't get
rid of it, even with spyware eliminating software.
If I save the homepage and log out as the current user and
log in again, the homepage is always redirected to the stupid
search engine. I have done everything possible, even getting
a service pack upgrade from Microsoft, but it is still there.
I eliminated or moved suspect files to another folder, but it
still exists.
I am going to search the entire drive for some specific byte patterns and
find out what file that thing sits in.
I downloaded Mozilla and I think I will kiss that IE shit good-bye
along with some other things.
Mozilla has a built in popup blocker and is extremely secure.
It works fine here and elsewhere. :D/
Switched over to Mozilla Firebird
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Den, its a registry edit. usually software called hijack this will repair that for you.
see the attachment in the next post |
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try this :)
you will have to unzip it, the extension .exe is not allowed. (for good reason I bet) click the config button to set the default search engines..... Last edited by Landman on 30 Jan 2004 23:14; edited 1 time in total |
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Thanks Landman, that did the trick.
A line like "Run regedit -s sys.reg" was writing to the registry to hijack the homepage. It saved me a lot of time looking around. I also found some .hta files which is another popular hijacking method. |
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Thank you Landman ! It's useful !
(And Den [-X [-X [-X , If you spent your nights on PORN SITES this could happen... [-( [-( [-( ... shame shame shame.... ) Last edited by Tormie on 31 Jan 2004 06:04; edited 1 time in total |
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Switched to mozilla not too long ago, after having been an IE man for years.
Go mozilla! :bigrinnin: |
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Porn sites ? 8-[ 8-[ Me ? :whistle: :whistle: :whistle: :-# :-# :-# I don't look at such things... :^o :prrr: |
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