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Internet Explorer hijacks
by ikeyb - 4/19/05 6:16 PMI have experienced internet explorer hijacks on my own pc in the past. My solution was to format and reinstall windows.
I recently discovered that my sister's pc, running windows 2000 professional, has had internet explorer hijacked. It is connected to the internet via my computer on a peer-to-peer network. I have windows firewall installed and avg antivirus.
I proceeded to perform a windows update, install antivirus, and test out microsoft's antispyware tool.
They all failed. The antivirus can identify when a new trojan is downloaded, and it found numerous trojans on the system, and the microsoft antispyware tool can tell me when new programs (the new trojans) attempt to get internet access. I tried a program called IE Hijack Remover. All it did was to maintain, or reassign my homepage as msn.com, but anytime i ran internet explorer, the antivirus would complain about a trojan being detected.
I would like to know if there is any way or un-hijacking internet explorer without a reformat.
(NT) Such is discussed daily in the Security forum.
by R. Proffitt
- 4/20/05 6:37 AM
In reply to: Internet Explorer hijacks by ikeyb
I too have had this happen....virus attachments
by acerides - 5/4/05 10:55 AM In reply to: Internet Explorer hijacks by ikeybI have firewall, anti virus, and it happened to me too, it even screwed up my outlook express email program. i know its still in there and nothing i've used can pin point it.... this should be illegal, it happened when i tryed to open a photograph via email, it was a spam email.
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