homepage hijacked

by **Xstream** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 6:41 pm

my wifes uncle in FL. has has his homepage hijacked, I told him how to set it to google and it didnt change. I told him to get CWshredder and it didnt help. He sent me the url of the hijacked page as an attachment, Zone alarm will only let me view it in notepad. it shows this..
BASEURL=http://www.google.com/
[InternetShortcut]
URL=http://www.google.com/
Modified=50B24127BBFFC301E8

any clues? thanks, Jim

by **augie** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 7:17 pm

He should run Hijack This It's about 3/4 down on the page. What you pasted makes no sense to me. I think he's the one who is not too savvy, then on that same page top left, there is a free spyware scanner. also, to reduce the chance of future hijacks, tell him to get Spyware Blaster and make sure to update first. Everything's on the same page. Here'sa good tutorial on hijacking.

by **augie** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 7:27 pm

BTW, AdAware does a pretty good job now on hijacks. it is also easy to setup, use and update. this may be the ticket.

by **kanaloa** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 7:56 pm

Spybot Search & Destroy fixed this on my Dad's PC once.

by **MinusDriver** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 10:20 pm

Man that stinks...

I would install ZoneAlarm if its not already and run the SpyBots like John said. Hopefully that will help...

If you have Win XP Pro I would also add the personal firewall.

by **Xstream** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 12:51 am

yes Augie, the SAME uncle, he emails or calls me almost every day with a new problem.

by **Dalsim** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 1:14 am

Hijack This is a good program. I run it once a day and I clean out about 5-10 hijacks everytime.

by **augie** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 2:26 am

dalsim wrote:Hijack This is a good program. I run it once a day and I clean out about 5-10 hijacks everytime.

Where do you surf

You must mean something else than just hijacking. :confused

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