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Hi everyone,

My IE got hijacked now whenever I open my IE its start page comes as shown in the picture attached. I have tried eliminating it through MS Spyware, Ad-aware, and Spybot but nothing happened... please help me... WHAT TO DO???

go to this site: http://asia.cnet.com/enterprise/apps/0,39035809,39199958,00.htm

i hope it helps

Edit: there is also some good info on this site (it has a very straight forward, "Step-by-step: Reclaiming a hijacked Internet Explorer" tutorial)

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Originally posted by Joa
I have tried eliminating it through MS Spyware, Ad-aware, and Spybot but nothing happened

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have u tried deleting ur cookies, files(online and offline) and ur history?

A really useful program for this is Hijack This

When you run it, a list of of files and keys will appear. There will probably be one like this:

HKCU\Software\Micorosft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page = <the site that your internet now starts at when hijacked>

Check this key and click fix checked.

Do not delete anything unless you are completely sure it is something bad

I also recommend trying CWShredder which runs a scan and is really good.

Use HijackThis:

http://www.richardthelionhearted.com/~merijn/files/hijackthis.zip

Let it scan and search google for all entries you don't trust. Then use repair to remove the entry/let it be changed to default value.

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Originally posted by monster.rat
A really useful program for this is Hijack This

When you run it, a list of of files and keys will appear. There will probably be one like this:

HKCU\Software\Micorosft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page = <the site that your internet now starts at when hijacked>

Check this key and click fix checked.

Do not delete anything unless you are completely sure it is something bad

I also recommend trying CWShredder which runs a scan and is really good.

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That's not enough! He has a browser hijacker that keeps changing it's homepage at startup, but it shows about:blank in the addres bar. I've had the same hijacker.

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Originally posted by Markus

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Originally posted by monster.rat
A really useful program for this is Hijack This

When you run it, a list of of files and keys will appear. There will probably be one like this:

HKCU\Software\Micorosft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page = <the site that your internet now starts at when hijacked>

Check this key and click fix checked.

Do not delete anything unless you are completely sure it is something bad

I also recommend trying CWShredder which runs a scan and is really good.

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That's not enough! He has a browser hijacker that keeps changing it's homepage at startup, but it shows about:blank in the addres bar. I've had the same hijacker.

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Which is why I also recommended CWShredder which can fix the about:blank.

I didn't want to say to much about deleting files with Hijack This as it could mess up the a lot of things if you delete a useful file or key.

CWShredder only removes CoolWebSearch variants....

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Originally posted by buzz

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Originally posted by Joa
I have tried eliminating it through MS Spyware, Ad-aware, and Spybot but nothing happened

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have u tried deleting ur cookies, files(online and offline) and ur history?

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Hi Buzz,

Yeah I tried that didnt helped

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Originally posted by monster.rat
A really useful program for this is Hijack This

When you run it, a list of of files and keys will appear. There will probably be one like this:

HKCU\Software\Micorosft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page = <the site that your internet now starts at when hijacked>

Check this key and click fix checked.

Do not delete anything unless you are completely sure it is something bad

I also recommend trying CWShredder which runs a scan and is really good.

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Hi,

Tried both softwares but none of em was able to get rid of the spyware... though HighJack This found the entry for the spyware and said it deleted it but nothing happened.