IE porn problem

Discussion in 'Malware Help - MG (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by suzycook, Aug 22, 2004.

  1. suzycook

    suzycook Private E-2

    Good morning all,
    Having a problem with IE. When I open IE, the home page goes to a porn site, when I try to close it, it goes to yet another porn site. So I try to type in what page I want to open as my home page, yet another site pops up saying it couldn't find the page and that I have to search for it.
    When I finally get there I go to internet options and choose current page as my home page(making sure it's the one I want). When I close the browser and go back to it, it goes to the same porn site. I have tried using blank and yet this site keeps popping up(pardon the pun).

    The porn site is: MK:mad:MSITStoreC:\spe\start.html

    The search site is: www.heretofind.com\show.php?id=

    I have run adaware, a squared, spybot and other antivirus programs and everything says I'm clean.

    Any solutions????? Any suggestions????? Any help?????

    Thanks,
    Suzy
     
  2. barnburner

    barnburner Private First Class

    If you have not done so, I would be sure and download the latest updates from Adaware and Spybot before scanning again.
    Also - you might try booting into safe mode before running these programs.
     
  3. Robert

    Robert Sergeant

    Post removed, that website is down and we have BHODemon here.
     
    Last edited by a moderator: Aug 22, 2004
  4. suzycook

    suzycook Private E-2

    Not only did IE get hijacked but so did Mozilla and netscape. I had all updated versions of adaware and spybot. I really do not know how this got through but it did and I learned a lesson.

    When I ran hijack this all of the things listed (default prefix, www.prefix etc) were there so I fixed them and only them.

    When I was done I went ahead and reinstalled Mozilla and will probably use that as my default and just use IE for updates.

    I read through several of the forums and learned alot about how a computer can get hijacked and how to prevent it. I only hope everyone takes my advise and yours and protects their computers before this happens.

    Thank you so much for you help.

    Suzy
     

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