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RetroAndy

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Can anyone help me. My fekking mate as been on my pc and had somehow changed my home page and no matter wat i put in the internet options it just reverts back to a page called about:blank which contains loads of shit and search engines.

It well pissing me off now. I have tried deleting cookies, offline pages etc and still no good.

Please help

Andy
 
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Sounds like a job for adaware AND "Spybot search and destroy". theres also another one specific for the home page thing which I cant remember the name of, but I seem to remember these doing it.....Im tired, so I may be getting confused, lol. Give em a whirl, spesh spybot.

See ya

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Sounds like you've been fekked by the fickle finger of ad-ware. Some of them can be a bitch to get rid of... some things to help us help you:

1) Is there a specific URL/domin? summat like coolsearch.web or summat?

2) Download a copy of Spybot (http://www.safer-networking.org/) and run that against your system. As long as its not the msi thing then it should detect it and remove it.

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Cheers fug

Are you suggesting getting rid of adaware then fella.

This thing is really pissing me off and i though adaware was supposed to help?

Andy :S
 
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fugjostle said:
Sounds like you've been fekked by the fickle finger of ad-ware. Some of them can be a bitch to get rid of... some things to help us help you:

1) Is there a specific URL/domin? summat like coolsearch.web or summat?

2) Download a copy of Spybot (http://www.safer-networking.org/) and run that against your system. As long as its not the msi thing then it should detect it and remove it.

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Right mate as of yesterday this didnt work but it was late and i hadn't rebooted so when i get in tonite i will try again.

Wats the MSI thing you mentioned fella ??

Andy
 
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Right update for ya's.

I have run spybot and that hasn't worked. I still cant get my home page to revert from this attached one to any others. I also tried running the trend on line scanner and my ie just crashes.

Any more ideas peeps before i smash this damm thing up :mad:
 

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sirius

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Looks like your m8's been surfing some very dodgy Japanese porn sites :rofl:

Seriously though, try and have a look here:

http://computercops.biz/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=133970


http://www.computing.net/security/wwwboard/forum/12084.html


and


http://www.icronticforums.com/showthread.php?t=4098&page=1&pp=15


you could have some rogue Dll's, so as they say above on the links, you could try *when you THINK* you have got shut of it, reset the clock to over a day ahead and see if it returns.

Going of the last links posts, theyve tried allsorts of programs to no avail - good luck bud

Cheerio

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Get adware from lavasoft the free version get the update then run the application your mate has the key cmc.dll

The latest version of adware has the key in its database on adware and will delete it.

Or you could go into the registry and search for it yourself and delete it. I wouldnt advise this though if you dont know what your doing in the registry as youll fuck up the PC if you get it wrong :)
 
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BIG thanks to Johns_ar (andy)

The man like Andy has sorted it for me. For anyone who encounters this fekking problem it turns out quite easy to fix.

I downloaded CW Shredder and it finds it straight away. Then it tells ya a few things you can do to prevent re occurance. I have downloaded a patch that should hopefully fix it but wont know till later when i get home.

Thanks again Andy

Andy ;)
 
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retroandy said:
The man like Andy has sorted it for me. For anyone who encounters this fekking problem it turns out quite easy to fix.

I downloaded CW Shredder and it finds it straight away. Then it tells ya a few things you can do to prevent re occurance. I have downloaded a patch that should hopefully fix it but wont know till later when i get home.

Thanks again Andy

Andy ;)
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Fekking bolloxs :mad:

Its back :cry: I have run the cw shredder and it gets it everytime. I also installed the patch from microsoft and that hasn't worked and i have tried to uninstall java machim which is the cause of all this shit. The cw shredder gives ya a link to a site that tells ya how to get rid but all the info is about xp not win 2k sp3

Can anyone help please :cry:

Andy
 
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If you look at some of them links sirius gave you i think there`s a fix in there somewhere for win 2k.Apparently it put two rouge dll files in your registry so it re-infects.You have to twawl through a few pages but i think it near the end.. :thumbsup:

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Your explorer has been Hijacked - you need to download the following app.

Hijack this
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html

or when you click explorer and the dodgy web name appears - write it down - then go into you exlporer options and changed you home page to google - apply it and or type google in your web browser (just try and get to google home page if possible) , then type in 'how do i delete (put dodgy website name in)' this should put you in the right direction of some good advise and help.

This has happened to me a few times and I fix my mates PC about once a week because I always looks at dodgy porn sites.

Good luck anyway
 


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