HELP PLEASE! Can't get porn website out of browser!

ddeder

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Jul 5, 2001
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The homepage is set to google but everytime the browser (Internet Explorer) is opened, It goes to a porn site. I have deleted all cookies from this machine and all temporary internet files and it still does it. Norton Anti-virus script blocking detects it as a threat but will not/cannot remove it. I have searched the registry for the name of the site and cannot find a reference to it anywhere.

Anyone know how to take care of this?
 

bunker

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BreakApart, where were you about 4 months ago when I asked this question??????

I ended up reformatting my pc to get around it! Thanks for the link though, bookmarked :)!
 

Bleep

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Well this sounds like exception.gen virus. This will require a registery edit. First do a msconfig on your machine to selective startup and you will find that it has put in the startup files a regedit on bootup which enables the virus to edit your registery upon boot up. Take the checkmark out of the box. Look at the complete line that it has put in there and it will give you the name of the file. I believe that is ogi or something like that write this down and exit out of the msconfig. go to search files and folders and type in that file, it will be in temp internet folder. delete the file. Go into regedit and bore down from HKEY_CURRENT USER software microsoft internet explorer main. You will find the redirects there. just delete these entries or edit them to whatever you want. This may also be in url hooks and it would be best to search all the stuff in internet explorer for any other places it might be. I suspect the site it is going to starts with lolita is this correct? Exit out of regedit and when it asks to reboot do not reboot at this time go into internet tools and reset your start page then reboot. This is a new variant of this virus that no one has a fix for. I just submitted this fix to trend monday.
Checked and it will be OPQ file in the startup folder
Bleep