so i was surfing and this website came up in a search and i went to it.. next thing i know it set itself as my homepage and i cant change it no matter what from my internet options.. ran adaware and spybot.. deleted all my internet files and cookies.. to no avail.. can anyone lend a hand here.. grr i hate these sob websites
sorrry for another post .. but also notice that if i'm searching throuch my adress bar it sends me to their website too.. god i wish some one would fry their computers
umm.. hmm 5th post.. yeah.. thank god for system restore.. all back to normal.. but grr all the panic and fustration at first... GRRR!!!! those bastards
A good note for everyone - if you're using XP, System Restore is VERY helpful in situations like these. I once had some sort of hijack and the only thing I could do was to do a System Restore.
Although you've solved your problem, I had a similar experience, and even though adaware found the problem, it didn't totally fix it, so here are some solutions: 1) check in the registry to see these values(if they exist) are like those below[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentV ersion\Policies\Explorer] - DWORD "NoSetHomePage"=dword:00000000
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Restrictions] - DWORD "NoSetHomePage"=dword:00000000 2) Using the program on this page: http://mlin.net/StartupMonitor.shtml you can easily check which programs are starting on windows startup then disable them, and note their location for deletion(I post this program because it is easier than navigating throught the registry) 3) With the taskmanager, end any suspicious task, and don't worry, if its important, windows won't let you close it 4) find and locate all instances of the programs found on startup and delete them(again, if they are truely important windows will protect them)
If you dont wanna see this page no more... Please do the following: Go http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtml then download software, then delete one of following processes in memory: explore.exe(BUT NOT exploreR.exe), internet.exe(BUT NOT internAt.exe), instal.exe, systeem.exe, sendmail.exe, game.exe, winampnew.exe, accesss.exe, gamedownload.exe, exas.exe, temp.exe.
