Re: Home page

From: Juan (soyquiensoy_at_terra.com)
Date: 07/07/04 

Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 00:37:09 -0700

Hi:

Your Start Page keeps changing because your Browser is infected with a
trojan or Browse Hijacker
known as "CWS.About:Blank".... Download "CWShredder" to get rid of it...

Then, to keep your start page fixed, go to your favorite page... then go to
Tools\Internet Options\
General\click "Use Current"... if It changes after that, download
"HijackThis" to do a more thorough
job and also download "About:Buster" or "Browser Hijack Blaster"... to
detect and delete browser
hijackers before they install on your system. You can find all here.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads31.html

"CWShredder" is a tool that will find and destroy any of about
fifty CoolWebSearch Hijackers which symptoms include

* Redirections to CoolWebSearch related pages
* Redirections when mistyping URLs
* Redirections when visiting Google
* Enormous IE slowdowns when typing
* IE start page/search page changing on reboot
* Sites in the IE Trusted Zone you didn't add
* Popups in Google and Yahoo when searching
* Errors at startup mentioning WIN.INI or IEDLL.EXE
* Unable to access antispyware tools or sites

------------------Original Message------------------
"Bobmarshall" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> escribió en el mensaje
news:27c3f01c463cc$da103530$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> My home page changes to "About.com" every time I log on.
> Why is this and what can I do to stop it??
> Thanks
> Bob

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