well it was supposed to be msn.co.uk, but it keeps defaulting to Search Everything - Microsoft Internet Explorer and then with that odd C windows thingy

d, can you post the actual url eg www.zzzz.com. Shoudl be fairly easy to get rid of? are you dial up? have you got any teenage male kids?

only 3 users here - and 2 of them claim innocence (I'm no 3!) address is as per post 1787 - can't say what the funny square in front of the C: bit is though, just not the explorer logo...it's really odd - it isn't a proper address is it?

The favs, however are gotosex4all.com, webanalsex.com, allcrazyporn.com, thestas.com and spyorgy.net

dotel,

OK I suspect one of them isnt being completely truthful ;-) and its probably a man ;-)

But who knows these hijacks keep trying to worm their way into PCs, however in my experience they are nearly always caused by surfing porn sites to warez etc sites (sites containg software keys etc).

Does the info in the following link look familiar?http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?showtopic=3795&st=0entry16637

dotel, thanks for the links :-)

These hijacks are pretty lethal. I got one the other night just searching for something. Some web pages are loaded with them, and you don't have to be browsing for sex sites to get one. Unfortunately they are loaded into your browser as a "browser helper object" without even a warning box, so you won't know you've loaded one until the next time you start up IE. No doubt that will be fixed in a subsequent update of IE but for the moment there is no protection. Some of them even disable anti-hijack software. The only ideas I found were to disable Java and Javascript, the only problem with that being that half the pages on the Web would stop working, including AM of course.

Just went to options, space - sorry for being so thick - here's the homepage address


http://solongas.com/hp.htm?id=9

Funny you should say that, space - I know who contracted this...by doing just what K suggests - it's him indoors, he only uses my computer to search for stuff. Also, at the top of the page is a spyware removal thingy, like you say, K

dotel, the link I posted contains info about removing this hijack, its not one I have seen before so I cant vouch for the instructions but the site they are on is very good.

Does that help ??

Still can't get it up

It took ages - threw exlporer off - but now I get *this page cannot be displayed*, space

Ah success! Thanks space, will have a play

Is it a coincidence when I went to put it into favs that it's come up as SWI Forums - CWS removal-http--solongas.com ?

Sorry, dotel, I was speaking to my nephew on the phone. That link comes from a site with a lot of info about hijacks. CWS (coolwebsearch was the first major hijack and many others are derived from it).

I didnt understand 1799 and 1800 above???

Couldn't get the page up to begin with, Space

It's definitely the right place for me - 1st problem on there is the same as mine

dotel, the second page contains removal instructions but as I said above I cant vouche for them. They will probably work fine though.

No harm in giving it a go, eh? Me? Oh 'eck

good luck, ruth has my phone no if you get stuck!!

Spaceman - do you know if there is a free registry checker available?
Thnx in advance

Cheers, space - it'll have to wait until tomorrow, cos I'm throwing myself out now :))

CS, there area few but I am not sue about them, I have used this one in the past and it seemed OK http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm

I worry about these products as the registry is so central and problomes in it can be very hard to sort out. Having said that it worked OK. I also used one in a product called system mechanic (I think) which I had a trial of a few weeks ago, again it seemed OK.