From: Kenneth Wygand (KWygand@customonline.com)
Date: Sat Feb 21 2004 - 02:55:03 GMT-3
John,
Have you tried using Ad-Aware to clean the system and then manually change your home page in TOOLS --> OPTIONS... ? Even though Ad-Aware may get rid of the source of the problem, it might not change your home page back to original settings (sort of like the way when you clean a virus, it might not necessarily fix any system files the virus corrupted).
Hope this helps,
Ken
-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Roberts [mailto:groupstudy@american-hero.com]
Sent: Fri 2/20/2004 7:35 PM
To: 'john'; 'phase90'; Kenneth Wygand; 'John'; 'Group Study'
Cc:
Subject: RE: Hijack this
Try using spybot search and destroy.
I switched from adaware to spybot and have never went back. It seems to be
updated more often and has more feature ( or at least did ) that adaware.
Pad
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http://www.safer-networking.org/
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of john
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 6:18 PM
To: phase90; Kenneth Wygand; John; Group Study
Subject: Re: Hijack this
Well, Jerry, apparently it doesn't work for my setup.
----- Original Message -----
From: "phase90" <phase90@comcast.net>
To: "john" <ccie2be@nyc.rr.com>; "Kenneth Wygand"
<KWygand@customonline.com>; "John" <net-eng@nyc.rr.com>; "Group Study"
<ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 6:04 PM
Subject: Re: Hijack this
> I've been using Ad-aware for about 2 years and it blocks ads and pop-ups
> great.
>
> I didn't even know it could be used for Spy-ware. Maybe that's how good it
> works!
>
>
> Jerry
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "john" <ccie2be@nyc.rr.com>
> To: "Kenneth Wygand" <KWygand@customonline.com>; "John"
> <net-eng@nyc.rr.com>; "Group Study" <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 5:55 PM
> Subject: Re: Hijack this
>
>
> > 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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