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Help, My HOME PAGE keeps redirecting to a NASTY PORN page!

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DarkFudge2000

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Folks, I posted this in General Hardware but perhaps its better off here, can someone please read and help me out....soon? Or Im gonna be in big trouble!


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nevermind, it seems locked...I'll paste below:

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FOlks...one of these porn links I clicked reset my home page to one of its porn sites and now its my default home page....Each I time I trie to reset it back to another home page in the OPTIONS screen in EXPLORER, when I close out and reopen explorer, it goes back to this porn page as my home


How can I fix this........and why is it doing this???

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motoamd
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01/14/2004 4:23 PM


Download this, called Hijack This Then post the results here.

Or if you see the offending link within the results, you can just 'check' it and remove it.

Also, other great programs to have is SpyBot Search & Destroy and Adaware 6.0 This also helps remove spy/ad-aware on your computer.

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DarkFudge2000
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01/15/2004 3:19 AM (NEW!)


Hey thanks alot ....I actually tried that program Hijack Pro and it listed the 3 lines in my registry that were pointing to this redirected porn link that keeps defaulting as my home page . I ran the SCAN NOW and I checked those 3 registry links for delete. It deleted them and seemed to work fine. so I then went and set my old home page back again and it works the FIRST time you close out and reopen EXPLORER but then any time after that, the HOME PAGE gets redirected again to this other page


What can I do?......even manually, just give me some help before my grandmother comes home please!


 
Most likely the only solution is going to be a reformat. I've seen that happen on work computers - Adaware, Spybot, McAfee, Norton, Hijack, etc all find the malicious registry entries, delete them, but they always reappear everytime the computer is restarted. Even completely uninstalling and reinstalling Explorer won't help you.

Good luck. If you do find a solution without a format, I'd love to know what it is - it will come in handy.
 
It's not easy.

I fixed it on one w2k machine before. I did a search thru the registry and looked for any references to a couple links that kept re appearing in the bookmarks section. I deleted those. Also I deleted anything that had a reference to the page that was getting setup as the homepage.

That took care of it.

However going around willy nilly deleting things in the registry is just asking for trouble and can easily screw things up. I was fairly lucky, plus I have some experiance messing around in their and know what to avoid.

If you can't fix it using anything like Adaware or any other anti-spyware software then your screwed unless you want to risk completely screwing up your OS. Maybe try reinstalling internet explorer. You can download a new version from windows.com. Maybe that will reset the bad registry information.

here is one link that may help you out.
There are registry cleaners that maybe able to fix it ALTHOUGH any time I see registry and cleaner or deleter or optimizer in the same sentence then I am pretty wary on it's safety. So learn how to back up and restore your registry before using this sort of thing. Never needed them myself, but I am not a regular windows user anymore.

Otherwise you can probably just delete any reference to IE on the desktop and start menus and install mozilla and tell your grandma that it is internet explorer 6.5 or whatever. Another victom of bad MS software design. 400 million, served.

This crap realy pisses me off because I end up having to clean spyware porn pop-up spawing stuff from my parent's computer... thats on my little sister's account. Although on this specific case I cleaned up a w2k machine that my roomate's machine. She quickly switched to using Mozilla after that. No pop-ups. built in pop-up blocker, tabs, better user interface. Lots more secure. It's a bit slower then IE because it's divorced from the core OS, but from my point of view that's a good thing.

Also check out Opera. It's very very good browser but if you get the free version it has banner ads. Then the chances that you have to worry about this crap is much reduced.
 
1. run adaware and spybot with updated definitions
2. check add/remove programs for any weird stuff
3. check 'program files' for any weird folders delete them
4. check msconfig for any weird stuff, uncheck in startup
5. check startup in your start button, delete any weird stuff
6. open task manager, show processes, have cpu usage be prioritized, open ie, see if anything is used percentage wise when you open ie
7. anything you question, search that word on google, it will usually show up as a good thing or spyware

This happens all the time to me, i have a bunch of kids and have to do the above at least once a week on my systems, works everytime though.

Hope this helps,
Dog
 
4. check msconfig for any weird stuff, uncheck in startup
Click to expand...

Seen this one many times, good suggestion. Often there is a program being run at startup that will re-install the changes if it detects that they are gone.


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also, DO NOT forget to check msconfig for strange things at startup...i have noticed that even if adaware or antivirus finds something, it doesnt alter the startup files in msconfig, so on reboot, everything starts over again!

 

Check your system processes to see which process is runing. Also, try Adaware, Hijackthis & Spybots, with CWShredder & HBOlist, and StartupList is also another good tool to use.
 
The guys over at Spywareinfo.com are great help at working through a highjack -- but they're gonna tell you to do what you've already been told.

I've been working through highjacks in the office for the last three days -- and on the spywareinfo front page is a link to a free, online scanner -- and it works! (Warning - it's an active-x, so set your permissions to allow it)

Adaware with current updates.
Then Spybot with current updates.
Then hijackthis
which will determine if you need cwsshredder or other tools...
Then spywareblaster to plug some of those holes...

Then AVG and a good firewall

Then learning to surf safely...




And NO it won't need a reformat
 
Also on Spybot make sure to check the 3 boxes to lock down your home page and search engine on the immunize page. That will help again future attacks.
 
Go to www.merijn.org and get CWShredder, a program specifically devoted to getting rid of browser hijackers. Spybot and AdAware will most likely get rid of the hijacker, but if they don't CWShredder should.

And, though I doubt you'll listen, use a different browser. Mozilla, Netscape, Opera, whatever. There are very few hijackers which work on non-IE browsers.
 
We had this happen on a client's computer, and it turned out that the computer had a virus. We would run adaware and spybot, and they would remove it, but it would come back on reboot.

Definitely, try some virus software like avg.
 
I had something similar (didn't go to porn though). It was a javascript file (in conjunction w/ registry i assume) in the windows folder. Mine was update12.js. Norton detected it.

EDIT: I should point out Norton detected it, HOWEVER, Trend Micro's free scan did not.
 
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