Help with Spyware

[Garibaldi]

I was wondering if anyone here could help me get rid of some spwyare/trojans/adware. I already have Spybot Resident, Ad-aware Personal, Advast Home Edition, Windows Startup Inspector, and ZoneAlarm. I have some knowledge with other techniques. I was wondering if you have any suggestions of other freeware programs or how to edit the registry to remove the spyware keys. Here is my exact problem. My home page is always changed to a pornographic site on startup. To me this sounds like background programs embedded in the registry. What do you think? Any registry help? Thanks.

[bazooka]

Use hijackthis

[IAIHMB]

Bazooka Adware and Spyware Scanner 1.12 will fix your problems. You can get it at www.download.com

[redwudz]

If you are using Spybot S&D, under 'Tools' there is a check to keep spyware from changing your IE homepage. But you probably want to get rid of the source program.

If you find the name of the program you can delete the registry file. (After registry backup) regedit has a search feature that works well. Some of those nasty little programs change their name, so are a little hard to find.

I have had good luck with the other tools in Spybot just trying to find oddball names that don't seem to fit it. (Use latest version) I would guess there is a registry entry that is the source of your problem.

[mikester]

A friend of mine hade the same browser hijack issue. Running the latest versions of Ad-Aware & Spybot did not fix the problem. We were able to remove it by using CWShredder (freeware). It immediately corrected the problem... You can download it from here:

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4086.html

[mastersmurfie]

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A friend of mine hade the same browser hijack issue. Running the latest versions of Ad-Aware & Spybot did not fix the problem. We were able to remove it by using CWShredder (freeware). It immediately corrected the problem... You can download it from here:

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4086.html

worked for me several times on friends computers...

[Faustus]

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