Mike
Wed May 05 08:25:55 CDT 2004
You've been hijacked.
Check your system for such commercials parasites with the likes of AdAware
(
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/) and SpyBot Search & Destroy
(
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/). Other useful tools include
BHOCaptor (
http://www.xcaptor.org) that checks for unwanted Browser Help
Objects and SpywareBlaster
(
http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareblaster.html) which can help prevent
some parasites getting a grip on your PC.
However your problem could be due a variant of the odious CoolWebSearch
hijacker and the best way of removing this is to use merijn's CWShredder which
can be downloaded from either:
http://www.zerosrealm.com/downloads/CWShredder.zip
or
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/cwshredder.zip
For more details of the CoolWebSearch hijacker see
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html.
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP
mcmaltby@hotmail.com
Nick Z <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> It seems a "foreign" home page has invaded my computer
> software (WindowsME) and there is no way I can get rid of
> them. I change the setting to bring back my desired home
> page but, when I restart, there they all are again. They
> create not one but 3 toolbars on my screen.