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more than a hijack!!!!

Jun 23, 2005 11:47PM PDT

hi there ,i don`t use the IE browser that much,and when i did this last time,it got hijacked. i tried microsofts new anti-spy prog. and it didn`t do crap. i`ve tried spyferret,noadware,spydoctor and a few others and none of them can locate this hijacker????
i use winxp and netscape and firefox, netscape and firefox work great(no hijacking there). but IE..wasted...i can click on bookmarks and they either take me back to the hijack page or a get an error. i`ve gone thru the regedit and tried all the names on the page and still can`t find anything..i`ve tried changing the homepage in the internet options field and it still goes right back to the page they want me to see... i have a txt copy of the page if someone wants it just e-mail me and let me know my e-mail is rfrelin@chartermi.net help me fix this problem...microsoft don`t know how...

thanks very much ralph

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(NT) (NT) Try a system restore.
Jun 24, 2005 8:18AM PDT
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Or you might try this also
Jun 26, 2005 5:43AM PDT
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I wasn't clear in the above reply
Jun 26, 2005 6:43AM PDT

Ralph,

Sorry, I was less than clear in the above response, after you run Hijackthis & save the log, open it in notepad (happens by default).

Then go to http://www.hijackthis.de/ and paste the HJT log for a SELF analysis, BUT be careful, the self analysis finds things on my system which were installed by DELL and are not a problem(but it pretty clearly shows NASTIES which you should delete using Hijackthis). Do NOT Post the log to THIS forum which my above post made it sound like, NOT what I ment but not exactly what I typed. At the http://www.hijackthis.de/ there are also personal forums which can discuss your log before you delete anything, HJT is a VERY powerful tool but unless you are an expert(I am not by a wide margin), I'd wait until someone skilled helps you delete things using HJT, but I think HJT will fix your problems.

Hope that's more clear & helps,

Steve