Author Topic: Explorer Home Page HIJACKED  (Read 694 times)

Guest_Steve

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Explorer Home Page HIJACKED
« on: January 07, 2004, 02:24:36 PM »
My son's computer has been somehow defiled by some scumbag at smartsearch.ws.  No matter what I do it keeps resetting IE 6.0's home page and search page.  

I have installed NOD32 virus protection with the latest defs (1/7/04).  It finds nothing.

I have installed AdAware 6.0 with latest defs.  Doesn't help.

I have also searched and replaced every occurance of "smartsearch" in the registry.

I have tried looking at the open processes (I'm running W2K with SP4) and closed everything that is suspicious....

BUT...

Everytime I reset the home page, close IE, then open it back up its back on that BLASTED SITE!

I just got done reformatting the hard drive, so everything was clean until this!!!

Please help.

sds

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Explorer Home Page HIJACKED
« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2004, 11:00:04 AM »