My wife's local account (profile) on this PC got highjacked by some website called monosearchDOTcom (don't go there casually).
The most disturbing thing, McAfee AV (I know!), Spybot SD, nor Lavasoft's Ad-Watch, stopped this infection from occuring in the firstplace.
Nor does Spybot SD or Lavasoft's Ad-Aware recognize the hijack to remove it.
Launching IE loads popups, other useless crap.
No matter how many times I try to get tools like hijackthis (in safe mode) to remove the monosearchDOTcom from IE startup, it always comes back. She is NOT PC savy and she just can't handle all of this. Her account is a "User" account, not power users, not admin, she doesn't have rights to install stuff.
The other profiles on the PC, mine and my duaghter's, are not messed up. So, it doesn't appear to be a wide scale infection.
Google comes up with near nothing. This can't be that unknown, we've been infected here for at least two weeks.
Help?
The most disturbing thing, McAfee AV (I know!), Spybot SD, nor Lavasoft's Ad-Watch, stopped this infection from occuring in the firstplace.
Nor does Spybot SD or Lavasoft's Ad-Aware recognize the hijack to remove it.
Launching IE loads popups, other useless crap.
No matter how many times I try to get tools like hijackthis (in safe mode) to remove the monosearchDOTcom from IE startup, it always comes back. She is NOT PC savy and she just can't handle all of this. Her account is a "User" account, not power users, not admin, she doesn't have rights to install stuff.
The other profiles on the PC, mine and my duaghter's, are not messed up. So, it doesn't appear to be a wide scale infection.
Google comes up with near nothing. This can't be that unknown, we've been infected here for at least two weeks.
Help?
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