From: Kenneth Wygand (KWygand@customonline.com)
Date: Fri Feb 20 2004 - 19:43:07 GMT-3
I use Lavasoft's Ad Aware (www.ad-aware.com).
Works like a charm! (Kills file sharing applications though that check
for ad/spyware applications before allowing the application to be
executed).
Good luck!
Kenneth E. Wygand
Systems Engineer, Project Services
CISSP #37102, CCNP, CCDP, ACSP, Cisco IPT Design Specialist, MCP, CNA,
Network+, A+
Custom Computer Specialists, Inc.
"The only unattainable goal is the one not attempted."
-Anonymous
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
John
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 5:33 PM
To: Group Study
Subject: OT: Hijack this
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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