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jahill · **Damn browser hompage -** May 25th, 2004, 07:16 PM

Hi all,

I have had this problem of my browser homepage re-configuring itself to omegasearch and bringing up a little pop up down the bottom every time i open explorer. I use Ad aware and spy blaster as well as Secret Maker which I find terrific but none permantly get rid of this problem. It slows down my computer a great deal on start up and occasionly crashes explorer all together.......

what do i do.

rainbowdemon · May 25th, 2004, 07:33 PM

Use Firefox!

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

jahill · May 25th, 2004, 07:50 PM

why though....

rainbowdemon · May 25th, 2004, 07:57 PM

The feature that applies to your problem is the built-in pop-up blocker. Aside from that it's simply a better and more secure browser.

jahill · May 25th, 2004, 08:05 PM

i like explorer though, is there any spyware program that will fix this problem

fireforce555 · May 25th, 2004, 08:07 PM

http://www.short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?t=12173

http://www.short-media.com/review.php?r=235

tvaddict817 · 08:13 PM

You can try hijack this. It is a program that tells you every single thing that starts with Windows (more than msconfig or anything else). You can find information and get the program from here: http://www.siena.edu/antivirus/Spyware/hijackthis.htm.

EDIT: You need hijack this for fireforce's post above.

jahill · May 25th, 2004, 08:19 PM

ok so if i install hijack this and it picks it up, which it will, what do i do from there. i cant do it now im at work so any further info would be good. should i delete it or???

wonderboy2005 · May 25th, 2004, 09:19 PM

If you don't plan on changing your homepage too often, you might want to lock it via the registry. here's a link to techTV's explination of how to do just that: http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/w...653335,00.html

Burd · May 25th, 2004, 09:39 PM

Try some of the programs here: http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html. I had a similar problem, but it kept re-routing to Cool Web Search. This Omegasearch might be associated in some way with it. Try the CW Shredder first; it just might do the trick, as it did for me.

rebirth · May 25th, 2004, 09:57 PM

use a hosts file from a third party website...download it and overwrite your HOSTS file in C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc that will block further attacks...and prevent some ads!

Mels_Smileys45 · May 26th, 2004, 02:24 AM

You should try cws shredder. http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/cwshredder.zip

I used it when I got hijacked a few months ago by globefinder. It worked perfect and was very easy to use.

nasrules · May 26th, 2004, 05:21 AM

Just get Spybot Search & Destroy. 'Clean' your system using it, then use it's 'Immunize' feature to stop it happening again.

muffenme · May 26th, 2004, 07:05 AM

:fire

Don't forget to download Spy Blaster to prevent future problem. Ad-aware could remove this problem but some adware requires that explorer.exe not to be loaded or the adware would just reinstall itself when you remove them.

:hole

MushroomheadXIII · May 26th, 2004, 07:07 AM

Its probably that browser hijacker from Ares, or some other shit. Not sure though, screensavers have crap hijackers like that too...
MOZILLA FIREFOX 0.8 RULLES!!!!
---> this is not spam...get from www.mozilla.org ans you won't be sorry!

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