Re: Advice please-browser hijacker..

From: Robert (noone_at_noplace.nowhere)
Date: 12/30/04

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    Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 15:49:52 -0500

    On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 17:07:56 +0000, tarquinlinbin wrote:

    > Hello,
    > I am currently troubleshooting a friends toshiba laptop which has a
    > browser hijacker on board which may also have been linked to a porn
    > dialler but not sure.... Its all down to his teenage son who is
    > obviously at a curious age. The last time I had his latop,it was a
    > full reformat and rebuilt but thats not required now. When MSIE is
    > lanuched it automatically goes to http://angelsfucked.com/se,html and
    > prompts for a download (activex maybe or dialler??)anyway its about
    > impossible to navigate away from this page and so the web broswer is
    > practically unuseable. Ive tried adaware/spybot S&D and neither will
    > clear it. Ive run regedit and browsed/deleted reg entries but they
    > return!!.

    Check the hard drive. I had a friend who also had the same problem with
    loading a porn site every time you started EI. Even after he set the
    homepage to blank. There was a register entry that told EI to look for a
    directory on his hard drive. Once this directory was removed we could
    set the home page to a blank screen. 

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Regards
Robert
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