my home page keeps resetting to a porn site!..grr...

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Jotolicious

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• Nov 23, 2003

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it adds two favorites to my favorites list too.

even after i shutdown, and restart, the homepage is changed to that cursed site. it also redirects msn.com, yahoo.com, google.com, to its stupid search page, royalsearch.net.

help me

 

cornbread

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• Nov 23, 2003

• #2

Use these tool to prevent and remove spyware. All are free.


Ad Aware

Spybot

Spychecker , lots of useful tools and info here.

And last, not to sound like a smart@$$, but the easiest thing to do is stay away from bad sites to begin with.

 

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Jotolicious

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thanks dude, and yeah that's the best advice.

 

cornbread

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• Nov 23, 2003

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Your welcome and don't feel bad, most of us have been there, I learned my lesson too.

 

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powerme

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• Nov 23, 2003

• #5

i never been to a pron site. I like to read news and listen music online.

 

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• Nov 23, 2003

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Welcome to the forums dude.

 

Th0r

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• Nov 23, 2003

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Does anyone else use your computer...if so then you can point the finger at them...lol

 

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• Nov 23, 2003

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Yes Spybot is a great tool, I run it weekly and it always finds junk that has no business being on my machine.

 

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mtnbikerjerry

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• Nov 23, 2003

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He's not willing to admit he was at a p0rn site. JK.

Ad Aware does a good job of removing it.

 

BUBBLE

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• Nov 24, 2003

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clear your history

Hi Dude,
You'll have to remove the history and delete offline files as well to overcome this problem and try to remove te cookies also. Once this happen to me also. I'm a man who may visit every web site not particulary corned to one info. Yes I've been to porn site and it may have doen url automatically changing thing but after doing the above things it corrected. I've never used those aps mention by others but think those are good (lol)

 

Antillian

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• Nov 25, 2003

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yes, Ad Aware is great.

 

orange400

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• Nov 26, 2003

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Ad-Aware vs Spybot ... who wins? Personally, I use Ad-Aware, but they're both just as good. Those proggies ROCK.

 

eaglescouter

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• Nov 26, 2003

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Yes it's a good idea to clear your cache, delete your cookies, delete your temp files, empty the trash and then run a spyware cleanup program.

Ad Aware is a great program, but SpyBot finds problems that Ad Aware misses.

Also SpyBot has an immunize tool to prevent some significant problems from recurring.

If these things don't get your system clean, then it's time to find the problem in the Registry (or format the hard drive and start over.)