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chr_rah · Apr 18, 2006

Hello im a total newcomer to all this looking for help - turned on my family pc today to discover my homepage has been hijacked by www.prosearching.com and i have a new "search" style bar in my browser. I've looked up a whole load of info and tried the newest updates of "CWShredder", "AdAware", "Spybot" and have now downloaded a program called Hijack This. AdAware found and removed a whole load of stuff but my browser remains hijacked after reset and i still have the new tool bar.
my current log file is

but everytime i boot it comes back.plz help

EDIT: inline log removed

DavidGP · Apr 18, 2006

Hi and Welcome, there are a number of steps to follow to sucessfully remove Malware/hijacks etc and Hijackthis logs are the last in those steps so please follow our standard cleaning procedures which are necessary for us to provide you support, Also there are steps included for installing, running, and posting HijackThis logs as attachments.

I know these steps will take some time but they are sucessful

- Run ALL the steps in this Sticky thread READ & RUN ME FIRST Before Asking for Support

Make sure you check version numbers and get all updates.

- Very Important: Make sure you tell us the results from running the tutorial...was anything found? Were you unable to complete any of the scans?...Were you unable to download any of the tools?...Did you do the on-line scans as suggested? etc.

After doing ALL of the above you still have a problem make sure you have booted to normal mode and run the steps in the below link to properly use HijackThis and attach a log:

Downloading, Installing, and Running HijackThis

When you return to make your next post, make sure you attach the following logs and that you have run these scans in the following order too (these scans are covered in steps 6 & 7 of the READ & RUN ME sticky)

Bitdefender

Panda Scan

HijackThis

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