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July 5th, 2004, 05:54 PM
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Re: OT: about:blank homepage hijacker..
Like I suggested before, try system restore. I had a similar problem with a hard to kill hijack program, but got rid of it by restoring the system before I got infected. It was completely gone.
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July 5th, 2004, 06:34 PM
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Re: OT: about:blank homepage hijacker..
The stories about how persistant and ingenious these spyware/adware/hijackware programs can be are getting quite amazing. I've heard about how they install processes to watch themselves and re-install, or hide 'bombs' all over your system in hopes of causing re-infection. I'm glad I've always surfed in 'paranoid' mode with a browser filter/proxy between me and the net. Now with Mozilla instead of IE I'm a bit safer, but being Online is still getting scarier every day. I'm very much afraid that this chaos will provide an excuse for the government to step in and regulate everything, ruining our nice 'free' Internet.
[ July 05, 2004, 17:35: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]
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July 5th, 2004, 06:46 PM
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Re: OT: about:blank homepage hijacker..
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Mozilla is proving to be a very nice browser, I doubt that I will ever return to IE.
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Another convert! Chalk yet another up to the Gecko 
You will be quite happy to know that the primary vector for spyware installation is closed when you use Mozilla. Mozilla will NOT install anything without your ok.
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July 7th, 2004, 12:17 AM
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Re: OT: about:blank homepage hijacker..
DEG, you probably already knew about this, but be sure to run the update feature on both AdAware and Spybot. The installers, IIRC, come with definitions that are over a year old.
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July 7th, 2004, 12:24 AM
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Re: OT: about:blank homepage hijacker..
can someone post a link to mozilla?
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July 7th, 2004, 12:55 AM
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Re: OT: about:blank homepage hijacker..
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July 7th, 2004, 04:04 AM
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Re: OT: about:blank homepage hijacker..
Link to kill it:
http://www.securiteam.com/securityre...RP0L0UD5U.html
And as the others have said Mozilla or Firefox to prevent it. If you have to keep IE6, then Firefox is a little more IE friendly. If you work with SQL web apps or Frontpage, then you will want to keep IE around.
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