homepage problem

[Evy]

I am having a problem setting my homepage...it keeps going back to about.com
or another one. I an set the homepage on the yahoo website, going into
internet options, and msn website, but it still goes back to about.com or the
other one.
I have scanned with adware, spybot, and yahoo pop up blocker, and I know it
is an adware/spyware program that is causing this.
I have also gone onto add/remove programs and tried to remove Pgate Basic,
the one I think is the culprit, but an error message pops up and it cannot be
removed.
Actually, there are quite a number of programs that cannot be removed,
including weatherbug and a game I previously installed called lemonade
tycoon. Many of the spyware programs cannot be removed also.
Where do I go to from here? t/y for the help

[hustedj]

Update your virus defs. and do a virus scan. You could have a trojan virus on
your PC that is changing your home page.

Thanks

"Evy" wrote:

> I am having a problem setting my homepage...it keeps going back to about.com
> or another one. I an set the homepage on the yahoo website, going into
> internet options, and msn website, but it still goes back to about.com or the
> other one.
> I have scanned with adware, spybot, and yahoo pop up blocker, and I know it
> is an adware/spyware program that is causing this.
> I have also gone onto add/remove programs and tried to remove Pgate Basic,
> the one I think is the culprit, but an error message pops up and it cannot be
> removed.
> Actually, there are quite a number of programs that cannot be removed,
> including weatherbug and a game I previously installed called lemonade
> tycoon. Many of the spyware programs cannot be removed also.
> Where do I go to from here? t/y for the help

[Ron Martell]

Evy > wrote:

>I am having a problem setting my homepage...it keeps going back to about.com
>or another one. I an set the homepage on the yahoo website, going into
>internet options, and msn website, but it still goes back to about.com or the
>other one.
> I have scanned with adware, spybot, and yahoo pop up blocker, and I know it
>is an adware/spyware program that is causing this.
>I have also gone onto add/remove programs and tried to remove Pgate Basic,
>the one I think is the culprit, but an error message pops up and it cannot be
>removed.
>Actually, there are quite a number of programs that cannot be removed,
>including weatherbug and a game I previously installed called lemonade
>tycoon. Many of the spyware programs cannot be removed also.
>Where do I go to from here? t/y for the help

See the information regarding HiJackThis at
http://www.aumha.org/a/quickfix.htm - item #5

Good luck



Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
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