an advertisment has taken my home page

lxamon · May 10, 2008, 02:13 PM

Before I send this question I check similar questions but that helped just halveway.Yesterday I received one of those pop ups from an spyware company,threatening me of the risk my computer was.My computers been working OK with some other programs I have (AVG.Cleaner.Optmize).I clicked cancel but instead of going away i took me to a home page of the spyware.The problem is that if I go to Tools-Internet Options and in the upper part I choose my home page (yahoo) I click apply and yahoo comes back and the computer works normaly THE PROBLEM IS THAT whenever I return to Internet the Spyware offer pops up as my home page again.
My computer is DELL Dimension 8300 and I run Win XP.Thanks for your help

vingogly · May 14, 2008, 05:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by invisibleman_productions

To prevent spware infecting your browser only use
Firefox+Adblock Plus +noscript

Adblock Plus will prevent popup ads while you''re visiting websites, but it will not prevent your being infected by spyware or adware. You still need to run Ad-Aware and Spybot S&D or applications like them.

Vasily

invisibleman_productions · May 14, 2008, 07:29 AM

vingogly yes . As you had already posted links to the user and the user used spybot to remove the offending spyware. The only thing left was prevention of reinfection hence I posted only the preventive measure.



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