something has infiltrated my browser...

[scott clements]

during the middle of last week we found that there were a
bunch of new shortcuts on our desktop to web directory
sites and that a couple of new toolbars had installed
themselves on our explorer browser.

- firstly it's pretty disturbing that my operating system
security could be breached so easily - has anyone else
had this experience?

- how can i get rid of unwanted toolbars completely? i
know how to unselect them but i want them gone for good.

- now whenever i open explorer it goes to my home page
but seems to route through this other site first.
basically i want to purge all aspects of this thing from
my browser and operating system. any ideas on how to do
this are very welcome - i would like to track down the
company that did this as well.

the website it routes through (and leaves a small window
for searching their websites at the bottom of my
browser) is http://v4720.ecpm.com

the 2 extra toolbars are called Xupiter and pressrieust

[Jupiter Jones]

Scott;
You have spyware on your computer.
Try this link "How do I uninstall one of your software products?":
DO NOT CLICK "Accept", "OK", "Yes" etc on any other boxes that may
come up.
http://www.xupiter.com/help.html

Also see this:
http://www.aumha.org/a/noads.php

Run Ad-Aware (free version) or Spybot to check for spyware:
http://www.lavasoft.de/ (Update if you already have it)
Or
http://spybot.eon.net.au/ (Update if you already have it)

--
Jupiter Jones
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http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/using/newsgroups/setup.asp
Please respond to newsgroup only for everyone's benefit.


"scott clements" > wrote in message
...
> during the middle of last week we found that there were a
> bunch of new shortcuts on our desktop to web directory
> sites and that a couple of new toolbars had installed
> themselves on our explorer browser.
>
> - firstly it's pretty disturbing that my operating system
> security could be breached so easily - has anyone else
> had this experience?
>
> - how can i get rid of unwanted toolbars completely? i
> know how to unselect them but i want them gone for good.
>
> - now whenever i open explorer it goes to my home page
> but seems to route through this other site first.
> basically i want to purge all aspects of this thing from
> my browser and operating system. any ideas on how to do
> this are very welcome - i would like to track down the
> company that did this as well.
>
> the website it routes through (and leaves a small window
> for searching their websites at the bottom of my
> browser) is http://v4720.ecpm.com
>
> the 2 extra toolbars are called Xupiter and pressrieust