Re: Can someone help me?

From: IKE (refmon_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 12/02/03 

Date: 2 Dec 2003 09:45:26 -0800

Just an FYI - I have someone that I help out with the same issue - I
ran ad-aware last night and did some registry editing on his system -
and this morning his home page was right back at the same address.
I'll be looking into it again - and will let you know if I find any
solution.

"Steven L Umbach" <n9rouz@nscomcast.net> wrote in message news:<3TMyb.275405$ao4.945853@attbi_s51>...
> Try running AdAware first or SpyBot Search and Destroy on your computer to see if
> that helps. I understand that there are new techniques that these two can not remove
> as of now which may call for more drastic measures however. --- Steve
>
> http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
> http://spybot.eon.net.au/
> http://www.aumha.org/a/parasite.htm --- More advanced solutions that may involve
> registry modification.
> http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/
>
> "Kari" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:00a701c3b83e$1d7b5150$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> > There is a website called fastsearc.cc that has somehow
> > gotten a hold of my URL address and can now change my home
> > page to fastsearch.cc anytime they want! I know how to
> > change it back to the one I want, but every few hours it
> > changes back to this fastsearch site. Does anyone know
> > how I can block them or prevent them from continuously
> > changing my start page? Thanks.