help hijacked homepage!

[cool 300ex]

Well i just got this last night i was looking for photoshop on a search place that some one gave me. Then i clicked the thing for photo shop and all i got was porn then my antivirus poped up and said i am at high risk. Then got that stuff out of the way and click for my homepage. All i got was about:black and it had a search pop up. I dleted cookies,tryed to change it back,searched for the thing on my computer and can't find it,and then tryed with my macfee antispyware. It found it and got rid of it. It just keeps coming back its called adult links and shows as adaware.

I had this problem once befor and i know there a painb in the but to get rid. Last time i had to reformat and i don't want to do that again. Theres so much stull to reinstalled and get back. I hope some knows an easy way to get rid of this.

[SRH]

ok, u were looking at porn, dont even lie, i had that virus/adware and the only way i could get rid of it was to restart my whole comp...

[cool 300ex]

Well know i went into the registry and it just keeps coming back. I don't know what to do any help?

[Fender Bender]

Originally posted by SRH
ok, u were looking at porn, dont even lie, i had that virus/adware and the only way i could get rid of it was to restart my whole comp...

I wish all I had to do was turn it off and back on again to get it all to go away...

Sometimes you have to reformat, it is a good nights worth of work, but you gotta do what you gotta do. Next time use a firewall, and software that watches for that stuff, like adwatch, etc.

[SRH]

Originally posted by Fender Bender
I wish all I had to do was turn it off and back on again to get it all to go away...

Sometimes you have to reformat, it is a good nights worth of work, but you gotta do what you gotta do. Next time use a firewall, and software that watches for that stuff, like adwatch, etc.


yeah i met restart with it fresh as in reformat

[Chanman420q]

haha u pervs;)

[Mxjunkie]

Originally posted by Chanman420q
haha u pervs;)

its not just from porn ;)

[Jellyrolls]

get adaware and spybot and get updates....
should get rid of it....

[Splatter Matter]

go to the (tools) in the toolbars click on it.then click on internet options.you will see home page change to what you want.

[Guy400]

Go to www.download.com and download a program called Hijack This!

[ny300exrider]

i got the same thing i really need to reformat my comp, can anyone tell me what you have to do. delete everything, then reinstall?

[cool 300ex]

go to the (tools) in the toolbars click on it.then click on internet options.you will see home page change to what you want.

IF it was only that easy!

[XCAdam89]

Its spyware, and some spyware searchers can't find every bit of spyware. Sometimes you have to reformat your whole computer. :eek2:

[250exen]

happened to me,
after some long hard nights of getting pissed with adaware, i decided to screw adaware and go with spyware doc. and spybot! get both from download.com

[ny300exrider]

i have a 40$ spyware killer and it still comes back so can anyone tell me what you have to do to reformat your computer. i definitly have spyware so i just want to redo it right

[RoadkillerRyan]

i got the same problem how do i reformat my computer?

[cool 300ex]

i have a 40$ spyware killer and it still comes back so can anyone tell me what you have to do to reformat your computer. i definitly have spyware so i just want to redo it right

It's the way the software is writen the peopel who write the spyware are fast.

[Ralph]

www.tomcoyote.com, they can help you

[Rdhanded2]

you can avoid most of this. Set up multiple users on your pc. Make one for just surfing the net/porn!!!!/whatever. Restrict that user so it is not an administrator. Then a lot of spyware can't install on your pc because the user does not have the right to install software. I use this and I hardly ever get any spyware. It got so bad before I started surfing like this that I wanted to pull my hair out. Now I do that, and run spybot and adaware once a week and I am fine. I swear, you guys will have no more problems if you do this. Just my $.02

[cool 300ex]

Yeah that sound slike it would work good yeha adawre and spybot are the best free programs out there for that stuff.I use macfeee antispywear i bought it so i am going to use it.

[ny300exrider]

can anyone tell me what you have to do to reformat a dell. do you just delete everytihng then reinstall it or is there sometihng else

thanks

[AtvMxRider]

Originally posted by ny300exrider
can anyone tell me what you have to do to reformat a dell. do you just delete everytihng then reinstall it or is there sometihng else

thanks


Your computer should have come with a disk to do it.

[mudcovered]

Get a program called CWS Shredder. It removes those bugs that continually re-set your homepage.

[spincr4hire]

I had the same problem for a month. Adaware 6.0 and HijackThis was the only thing that got rid of the problem for me. I'm running windows XP on a dell laptop.