Homepage Hijack

[Pineapple]

Anybody got any ideas how to get rid of a homepage hijack ?

I have run Norton Antivirus, Windows Defender, Spybot search and Destroy and Lavasoft Ad-Ware but still cant get rid of it.

Any suggestions most welcome.

cheers

Tony

[ACE]

Go to internet options and click reset web settings. I always open on blank as I do not want to wait for a homepage to load.

[SalTheWop]

If that dont work you could go here

http://hometown.aol.co.uk/jrmc137/hj...l/tutorial.htm

Download Hijackthis ,run it . Follow the tutorial .

Disclaimer* Although I have used this program in the past and had no problems , you take responsibilty.Dont go deleting everything or it may be reinstall time.

[BaZa ®]

This MAY sort it???


Go to START>>>> CONTROL PANEL>>> click on

then you will see this:

delete cookies >> delete files and clear history.

take out the highjack address in the top where mine says http://www.hdrcgb.org.uk/etc etc.....

and put in the address you want the Int Explorer to open up in.
Click ok.

[Pineapple]

Thanks for the replies guys.

The 2 simple fixes did not work, whatever homepage i changed it to, it simply changed it back when i entered internet explorer.

Sal, yours looked scarey so i was taking the time to read it through
but as a last resort i downloaded ewido anti spyware which i got from the
stick thread ' free security products '.

Full system scan and it found it and deleted it.

Taken me all bloody day

Thanks

[harleyhog]

Best to download and run this in the background, once you enable protection it runs in the background without you doing anything.
Keep it manually updated once a week or so, tis free.

It'll stop, or help stop it happening again:

SpywareBlaster 3.5.1