Virus/Browser highjacker. Help needed removing.

[DevonB]

Thanks guys. I'll start checking these things out.

Would a firewall or something like Zone Alarm protect me against things like this?

Nope.

Devon

[aMUSEd]

But if you install spybot it can "immunise" your browser against unauthorised changes and extensions.

[P.T.]

Just as an update;

Highjack this found the problem and using the analysis page that was posted by blixa the problem is fixed.

Thanks for the help!

[Amberience]

Y'know, if you people didn't use Internet Explorer, a lot of that stuff wouldn't happen.

www.mozilla.org

Grab FireFox.

[P.T.]

I usually use Mozilla.

When I got this problem I was using Netscape. Even though I was using Netscape it was IE and windows explorer that became affected.

The spyware/highjacker wrote to the system folder inside of the windows folder and created code in the user.dat and system.dat files.

[tetraplan]

Y'know, if you people didn't use Internet Explorer, a lot of that stuff wouldn't happen.

www.mozilla.org

Grab FireFox.

And then get the Mostly Chrystal theme.

Groet, Erik

[system_architect]

I had this hijack tool take over IE and force my homepage to be makemesearch.com. To get rid of this, go into the Control Panel and choose add/remove programs. Look for a program called "Search Toolbar" and uninstall (remove) it.

Then go into Control Panel / Internet Options and reset your home page back to whatever you want.

I also ran regedit and did a search for "makemesearch.com" and deleted those registry entries (don't worry, IE will recreate those values properly when they don't exist).

This fixed the problem completely.

[seamoss]

makemesearch.com and all of those other hijackers should be shot




f**kers