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| 216827 | 2004-02-20 08:09:00 | when i click on ie it comes up with a blue screen and says that i have spyware and i shoul follow the link below, i have run avg and ad aware and it still happens, in the address bar it say c:\windows\secure.html when i want to change my homepage to something else it changes by itself to that same page some help please thanks |
Patrick 2003 (277) | ||
| 216828 | 2004-02-20 08:27:00 | Go to the forum's FAQ section and follow the instructions in the Spyware FAQ and/or Homepage Hijacking FAQ. Link to FAQs is at top right of this page. Note that they may take quite a while to load. | tommy (2826) | ||
| 216829 | 2004-02-20 08:35:00 | If you don't mention what version of Windows you run, prepare to be underwhelmed with offers for help. On the slight chance you are using XP, you might try the steps below. You have a bad infection in the PC. This involves delving into the Registry. If any data on the PC is valuable, back it up first. Only do this if you are confident in working in the registry, create a restore point first. I am not aware of any successful way to fix it otherwise. 1. Press CTRL+ALT+DEL and kill the reg32.exe process 2. Start Menu -> Run -> msconfig32.exe -> Startup -> Remove the reg32.exe 3. Delete or Remove reg32.exe from C:\Windows directory 4. Run regedit and remove the lines containing "secure.html" and "defaultsearch" text. Also try to find a line containing "reg32.exe" 5. Open your browser and set you homepage to whatever you want. 6. Reboot the system |
godfather (25) | ||
| 216830 | 2004-02-20 10:35:00 | It is turning out the most often "infection" is caused by coolweb. It may be easier to try the cleaner first called cwshredder from here (www.majorgeeks.com) and is usually followed by Spybot from here (www.safer-networking.org) Ensure you do an online update of Spybot, before running it. Post back and let us know how you get on. |
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