OT: Hijack this

From: John (net-eng@nyc.rr.com)
Date: Fri Feb 20 2004 - 19:33:10 GMT-3


Hi everyone,

I'm trying to clean out some unauthorize crap that "Hijacking" my start and
default page in Internet Explorer 5.5.

What this malware does is set my start and default page to:
C:\WINDOWS\secure.html

In an effort to get rid of this, I went through my registry and change ever
setting that references secure.html to about:blank but that didn't work. Ever
time I started IE, the start and default pages were changed back to
secure.html. I don't really know how to get rid of this annoying malware so I
tried google.

On google I discovered there's a freeware program called HijackThis that gets
rid of this nuisance but, for some reason which I still don't know, I can't
download this software.

Whenever I try to download this software, and I've tried using Mozilla and IE,
I get a connection refused or Page can't be displayed message. I wonder if
this malware is preventing me from downloading this freeware.

So, I'm wondering if anyone's has already downloaded this software and knows
if it works as advertised. Also, I wonder if this software works if someone
would be kind enough to email it to me.

Thanks very much in advanced, John



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