Re: Adware "Hijacker" Situation...

From: dennis (just_at_4fun.com)
Date: 08/09/04 

Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 15:45:52 -0700

I use both spybot as well as adaware... what one doesn't find the other one
usually does.

I had IE home page get hijacked recently. Spybot would not find the culprit
but adaware would. It would come up with a dll file in the
\windows\system32 directory... could not fix it, could not delete...
nothing. Reboot the system and run adaware again and the dll file name
would change as the offending file but same results when trying to fix.
Repeated this process for about 3 or 4 reboots and got the same results with
the filename changing each time.

Did a google search (using some key words) and found a couple of free
utilities called 'vx2finder' and 'kill2me'. That fixed my problem. Might
be worth checking into.

good luck
Dennis
"Montgomery BOO...URNS" <solitude439@rcn.com> wrote in message
news:411692b9$0$5916$61fed72c@news.rcn.com...
> Hello all:
>
> Here's the problem I have and maybe someone could help me...
>
> First off, I have been using Netscape browser for quite some time now
> instead of IE just for the reason that no matter what security measures I
> would impose through IE itself or through a third party Internet Security
> software, I would still get annoying ad pop-ups when browsing to certain
> websites.
>
> Now, I'm using Netscape browser and apparently some sort of adware has
been
> installed on my system through Internet Explorer and even though IE isn't
my
> default broswer this particular adware program launches IE anyway, it's
> incredibly annoying and I can't get rid of it.
>
> I had this problem before and the solution was pretty simple. All I had
to
> do was go to my Control Panel and Add/Remove Programs and look for any
> unfamiliar programs on the list and uninstall them and it fixed it. This
> time around I did the same thing but apparently whatever this is, it
doesn't
> come with an uninstaller and it's not that easy to get rid of.
>
> I tried using Spybot and other "REGISTRY CLEANER" programs but I'm still
> having the same problem. I'm guessing that not only was some sort of
adware
> bot installed on my system, but whatever it is it's taken over the
> fuctioning of Internet Explorer and has actually "hijacked" my browsing
> capabilities. Can anyone help me or point me in the right direction to
> getting rid of this adware situation once and for all??
>
> TIA
>
> D.C.
>
>

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