From: john (ccie2be@nyc.rr.com)
Date: Fri Feb 20 2004 - 19:55:33 GMT-3
Hey Ken,
I wished it worked for this cause if it did, I wouldn't have this problem.
I happen to like ad-aware and use often but it didn't catch this nasty.
John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kenneth Wygand" <KWygand@customonline.com>
To: "John" <net-eng@nyc.rr.com>; "Group Study" <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 5:43 PM
Subject: RE: Hijack this
> 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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