Re: Help with internet explorer/possible hijacker?

anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 04/30/04 

Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 18:49:11 -0700

I am using spybot search and destroy. WHen the "possible
hijacker" things come up, i check the box, and click "fix
selected problem" After a bit, I'll run spybot search and
destory again, and they'll be there...

>-----Original Message-----
>Hi Madberry,
>
>What you have seems to be a spyware program. I would
recommend Spybot Search
>and Destroy to remove it. It is an excellent program,
although third-party
>(so Microsoft will not provide support for it.) I use it
myself, and have
>never had problems. You can download it here:
>
>http://www.safer-networking.org/
>
>If that does not work, feel free to post back for more
help.
>
>Sincerely,
>Benjamin Johnstone-Anderson
>Microsoft MVP - Windows Security
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>"madberry" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
>news:621b01c42e42$7d83b7c0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>> Whenever I open up Internet Explorer, it goes to a page,
>> www.wholewordsearch.com or something like that, and says
>> it's the default page, and won't let me change it.
>> Whenever I run spybot search and destory it comes up
with
>>
>> Possible hijacker: Global settings (Registry change,
>> nothing done)
>> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet
>> Explorer\Styles\User Style***=
>>
>> Possible hijacker: Global settings (Registry change,
>> nothing done)
>> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet
>> Explorer\Styles\Use My Style***=W=0
>>
>> Possible hijacker: User settings (Registry change,
nothing
>> done)
>> HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-320478908-4021804837-3496120522-
1006
>> \Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Styles\User
>> Style***=
>>
>> Anyone have any help?
>>
>>
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