Damn browser hompage

[jahill]

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]

Use Firefox!

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

[jahill]

why though....

[rainbowdemon]

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]

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

[fireforce555]

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


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

[tvaddict817]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

[muffenme]

: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]

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