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flash
16th February 2004, 11:14
I set my home page to Doom9.net and it keeps changing to:
h##p://81.211.105.43/index.php?v=5 and this comes up with a search page. I have tried two different spyware removers they do find alot of
spyware but will not get rid of this.
Any ideas How to get rid of this?

port66
17th February 2004, 13:55
Reinstall Google toolbar if you have it.

JaTeMaTec
17th February 2004, 16:32
That adress brings me to website: h**p://your-search.cc/ ("Everything is possible") - so it must be some toolbar related probleb as mentioned or then you have a redirect at your local hosts-file (\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts at NT2kXP and \windows\hosts at 9xME) - a txt-file that is known to change to point for these kind of pages when getting some spyware app(s) from net (the 'security warnings' : yes to one of those even by accident can make whatever to hosts and even make a huge collection of 'extra favorites' to IE from casinos to xxx...

I had once this kind of problem and installed the free versions of both latest Ad-Aware 6.0 Personal Edition and Spybot Search & Destroy v1.2.08 and let those handle all the bad seeds - i just wondered how many there could exist especially with the later one! I just let it kill all possible except Starr (a legal keylogger for monitoring windows events)

After i bought Adsgone 2004 v5.0 and installed latest Sygate FW pro with good rules - no more ads / spys / attackers...!

JaTeMaTec

flash
17th February 2004, 21:04
Thanks to you both. Tried spyhunter found 6 in the registry relating to coolweb when you click on them this is what spyhunter said:
Homepage hikacker that may pop up advertisements. Resets users homepage to coolwebsearch.com, cool-search.ws, or other affiliates.
Need to register the programme to delete spyware tho.

Cheers JaTeMaTec