MY IE browser has been hijacked. I set the home page and when I reboot, the home page is reset to www.youfindall.net
It is very annoying. PLEASE HELP. I ran HIjackThis on my machine and here are the log results:
Logfile of HijackThis v1.95.0
Scan saved at 12:38:10 AM, on 7/16/2003
Platform: Windows XP SP1 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106)
I found a softwarethat is made specificallly to kill this spyware. Here's the site:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/articles/cws/
You need to download CWShredder
Shiv
and run AdAware by Lavasoft, its the best. http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/
Also to add to what echolalia posted
e. Don't install programs like Kazaa, Grokster, MusicMatch, etc. These 'ad supported' programs normally come with a heap of spyware.
f. Don't install fake programs like Bozai Buddy and eAnthology.
Ahhh spyware, what fun, a.koepke is right use adaware, it will clean that crap off.
The really fun thing about spyware is after awhile and enough combinations of spyware it will completely hose up your internet connection and possibly your network stack.
Fixed two of those today.
Stop installing crap on your computer that you don't specifically know about.
Thanks for all the help guys. What is the browser offering best security? What do you guys use?
Originally posted by Shiv
Thanks for all the help guys. What is the browser offering best security? What do you guys use?
Mozilla (http://www.mozilla.org)
Get the "Firebird" v0.6 release. You'll never go back to MSIE.
Download it here:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firebird/releases/0.6/MozillaFirebird-0.6-win32.zip
I use Mozilla too :D... but the Seamonkey App Suite release. 1.4 is the last milestone build of it though :(
"Mozilla all the way!" screams Ctb as he posts from his company-mandated Internet Explorer browser.
"Of course", he continues, "it's only fair to point out that on this company-mandated browser I have to browse with images off or risk hosing IE's page-rendering."
I'd like to not for the record, however, that Mozilla is by no means an absolute fortress. It has it's share of bugs and exploits (though, probably not nearly as many as IE), it's just that:
1) They're usually not as serious a risk to privacy / security as IE exploitz are.
2) They're fixed very quickly. Patches are often available in less than half the time it takes Microsoft to post a bulletin telling people that the problem isn't serious (even if that problem can cause the deletion of arbitrary files on your PC just by clicking a link on a webpage).
I'm an Opera 7 fan. I haven't the foggiest what its security situation is, all I know is adware is too stupid to use it. I have GAIN installed with the shareware of DivX5Pro, and it never pops anything up, never bothers me in the least. If I don't use a browser it understands, it can't gather information on me, either.