Homepage hijack - solutions not working!

Home Page Setting Changes Unexpectedly, or You Cannot Change Your Home Page Setting
http://support.microsoft.com/default...&Product=ie600

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"akschneider" wrote in message:
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| Help!
|
| I was hijacked by a nasty nasty: jasearch.biz/rider.php
| I've installed and run adaware, spywareblaster, spybot and hijack this
| It found a bunch of things which I successfully removed
| Didn't work
|
| I reran symantec - didn't work
|
| I performed a clean boot and deleted all of the suspicious registry items: the guilty website was my default
page url, local page and start page.
|
| I opened IE, changed the homepage and it worked!
| But then I closed it and opened it again and the hijacker was back.
|
| Any more ideas? This is cost me some five hours of annoyance!

Have you tried running one of these programs?

Spybot S&D
http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=download

CWShredder
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html

HiJackThis
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html


On Tue, 18 May 2004 11:21:03 -0700, "akschneider"
wrote:

Help!

I was hijacked by a nasty nasty: jasearch.biz/rider.php
I've installed and run adaware, spywareblaster, spybot and hijack this
It found a bunch of things which I successfully removed
Didn't work

I reran symantec - didn't work

I performed a clean boot and deleted all of the suspicious registry items: the guilty website was my default page url, local page and start page.

I opened IE, changed the homepage and it worked!
But then I closed it and opened it again and the hijacker was back.

Any more ideas? This is cost me some five hours of annoyance!

I have gone through all those steps to no avail...

Had Adaware and SpywareBlaster already installed, updated them and ran them again to no avail...
Installed Spybot S&D, CWShredder and HiJackThis to no avail...
Installed a regedit program called HomePageLock to no avail...
Went into the registry and deleted the malicious url in Default_PAGE_URL, Local_Page, and Start_Page to no avail...
Did this again after a Clean Boot to no avail...
Updated and ran my symantic anti-virus and windows update to no avail....

HELP!

I have the same problem, tried all those freeware and NAV, not working!

Try running VX2Finder.exe

On Mon, 31 May 2004 10:56:02 -0700, "dave"
wrote:

I have the same problem, tried all those freeware and NAV, not working!