Free4U has hijacked my homepage!!

Discussion in 'Software' started by jabho, Dec 9, 2003.

  1. jabho

    jabho Private E-2

    Hello, I have searched the site and read lots of post but have yet to see this website mentioned. Some background: running windows XP, Home edition, HP machine, 1.8 MHz, 256 Ram.
    Anyway last night while surfing, started to get tons of porn popups out of nowhere. I closed them out and then got back on the internet. I had my homepage set to MSN.com. It had been changed to Free4U.net. I went to properties and changed it back. However when getting back on internet it automatically redirects to this website instead of MSN. Also typing MSN in address bar redirects to this website. I have run ad-aware and it identified several things and I quarantined them. However it is still there. If I change my homepage to anything other than MSN.com it works fine and goes to that spedified page. But try to set to MSN and back to Free4u.net. I have read other posts but do not really understand what to do. Pleas help.
    Thanks
     
    jabho, Dec 9, 2003
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  2. Major Attitude

    Major Attitude Co-Owner MajorGeeks.Com Staff Member

    All these fall in the same categories, in your case, its called a browser hijacker. Many might suggest different tools and that may be required, but start with this one:

    http://www.majorgeeks.com/download3155.html
     
    Major Attitude, Dec 9, 2003
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  3. jabho

    jabho Private E-2

    Hey thanks a lot, seems as if it worked. I ran it. Now my homepage is back to normal. This has been bugging me for days, thanks a lot.
     
    jabho, Dec 9, 2003
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  4. Major Attitude

    Major Attitude Co-Owner MajorGeeks.Com Staff Member

    Anytime!
     
    Major Attitude, Dec 9, 2003
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