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#199403 - Sun Nov 02 2003 03:48 AM Problems with homepage
mk2norwich Offline
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Registered: Sun May 25 2003
Posts: 901
Loc: East of England
I freely confess to having next to no knowledge about how the internet functions, so with that in mind I was hoping that one of the resident experts on this section could help me with a problem I have.

Every time I start my computer, my home page, which I always have set to Google, "changes" itself to another search engine, called here4search.com.
I do not want this to be my home page, otherwise I would have made it so.
Every time this happens, I re-set my home page to Google using Internet Options, but this makes no difference; everytime I re-start, my home page has changed.

I hope someone out there knows what I'm talking about (I certainly don't!), and can offer some helpful advice regarding this.

Thanks,

Mark (mk2norwich).

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#199404 - Sun Nov 02 2003 03:59 AM Re: Problems with homepage
halfbakedangi Offline
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Registered: Wed Jun 11 2003
Posts: 1576
Loc: Kolkata India                 
Seems you have the Global-Finder parasite. It's awful.

Click here


Edited by chinky1234 (Sun Nov 02 2003 04:02 AM)

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#199405 - Sun Nov 02 2003 04:34 AM Re: Problems with homepage
achernar Offline
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Registered: Fri Jun 06 2003
Posts: 1336
Loc: Mumbai India                  
I did a bit of research on the 'net, and it seems you might have a CoolWebSearch infection. This can cause all kinds of problems, including:
  • Redirections to CoolWebSearch related pages
  • Redirections when mistyping URLs
  • Redirections when visiting Google
  • Enormous IE slowdowns when typing
  • IE start page/search page changing on reboot
  • Sites in the IE Trusted Zone you didn't add
  • Popups in Google and Yahoo when searching
  • Errors at startup mentioning WIN.INI or IEDLL.EXE
  • Unable to change or certain see items in IE Options
  • Unable to access IE Options at all

Try downloading a program called CWShredder, which should get your system rid of this particular bit of spyware.

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