Re: Websites getting added to favorite on its own
From: Shenan Stanley (news_helper_at_hushmail.com)
Date: 02/08/04
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Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2004 15:03:03 -0600
Ronny wrote:
> Please help, please please.....
>
> I donot know much about computer so please give detailed
> indtructions. Whenever I am getting into internet, a
> tonnes of websites are getting added to me favorites and
> my home page is getting set to some gambling page I have
> never visited.
>
> How can i stop this???? Please this is very urgent. this
> is happening at my work place. i might lose my job
> even.....
Use google (http://www.google.com/) and search for Spyware and Browser
Hijack.
Sounds like you have tons of both.
I suggest looking into (installing, updating/scanning with) ALL of the
following applications:
Hijack This!
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html
CWSShredder
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html
LavaSoft AdAware
http://www.lavasoft.de/
Spybot Search and Destroy
http://www.safer-networking.org/
I also like "The Cleaner" and "SpywareBlaster" and "SpywareGuard".
- http://www.moosoft.com/
- http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/
The first is a PAY product, but useable for 30 days - it has found and
eliminated problems in the past the others did not. The latter two are
prevention mechanisms. I like SpywareGuard for those with enough processor
to have something running like antivirus software - and it prevents browser
hijacking quite well.
Good luck in getting rid of it. I think Hijack This! should do it for you,
but that does not mean you should run only that one.. I would suggest at
least installing and running(after updating) AT LEAST Hijack This!, Lavasoft
AdAware and SpyBot Search and Destroy.
Another option you have is using another browser. I like Mozilla Firebird,
personally. Fast and has many features that people wish were in other
browsers..
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firebird/
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