i had some viruses on my computer, i got rid of them but now whenever i open explorer its like my defalt page is this site where it says im infected and i need to download there program to get clean, but i have spybot, adware se, norton, and a few other high power anti-viral programs, i will run them all and come up clean , but when i click on explorer its the same every time, i have tryed changeing my home page and even putting it back on defalt page and it dosent work, and i have now erased any unessasary programs and deleted a lot of files hoping it would fix it but it hasent, and i even ran all the programs in safe mode and nothing new came up, i think it is a hijacker, but i dont know what it is or how to get rid of it,...can some one please tell me what is wrong and how i can fix it, PS i would appreciate it if u could tell me some FREE programs i could download that would work
2006-09-05 00:25:47 · 16 answers · asked by armorefelix 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
Spyware, Adware, Trojans, Malware, Dialers:
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
http://www.ewido.net/en/download/...
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
http://www.download.com/Bazooka-Adware-and-Spyware-Scanner/3000-8022-10247782.html
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/sgdownload.html
http://www.safer-networking.org/
http://www.download.com/HijackThis/3000-8022_4-10379544.html
http://www.webroot.com/consumer/products/spysweeper/freescan.html?
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx
http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/activescan.htm
http://www.bitdefender.com/scan8/ie.html
http://www.windowsecurity.com/trojanscan/
http://www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner
http://www.spywareguide.com/onlinescan.php
http://housecall65.trendmicro.com/
http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/download/
Antivirus:
http://www.grisoft.com/
http://www.avast.com/
Firewall:
http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/znalm/freeDownload.jsp?dc=12bms&ctry=US&lang=en&lid=staticcomp_za
IP Blocker:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/peerguardian/pg2-050918-nt.exe?download
2006-09-06 20:05:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Change your home page and close explorer. Open explorer again and you should get a Norton message that there has been an attempt to change your home page. Accept the new page and your problem should be fixed. This is part of the Norton package.
2006-09-05 00:35:45 · answer #2 · answered by Kanuk Komputers 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hmm, firstly, find out what is attacking your computer.
Step 1: Check your system processes
Check out which processes are eating up your computer resources: assuming that you're using Windows XP, do a Ctrl-Alt-Del. That should open up "Task Manager". Select the tab, "Processes", and check whether there are mysterious ".exe" files. Some might be the ones attacking your system.
I would highly recommend Perxv1, to remove your spyware:
http://front.prevx.com/
I think they have a trial period of 30 days, so that's better than not having one at all : )
2006-09-05 00:51:23 · answer #3 · answered by kosherjellyfish 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
While AVG is an excellent anti-virus program that you should install on your PC, it will nor clean this becasue it is not a virus, it is spyware.
Check for spyware. Run both Ad-aware (http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/) and Skybot (http://www.safer-networking.org/) to remove any spyware. Run both as one may caught something the other missing. Then go to microsoft.com and download Defender to protect against future infections.
2006-09-05 00:29:55 · answer #4 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
hi, that maybe a virus, perhaps you can try Norton to remove the virus. but you need to pay for the software.
i also recommand you to use firefox with Google toolbar. firefox can disable all virus to run, because the virus can only run on IE.
besides, firefox can block any any poppus and disable any virus and adware, spyware on webpage, so, firefox is much safer than IE. as you know, most of the virus is spread throught internet and webpage.
firefox is much smaller than IE, so i run faster than IE.
download firefox for free:
http://www.bernanke.cn/firefox/
Best Wishes && Good Luck!
2006-09-05 02:11:49 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
You need to download "hijackthis", and can find that by just searching through yahoo or google.
Your next best bet (since this place isn't setup well for this), is to post the logfile generate by hijack this on a internet forum, where people who know what to delete using hijackthis (don't use it if you don't know what you're doing with it), can assist you.
2006-09-05 00:34:32 · answer #6 · answered by Ryan 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What about Norton Anti virus? It's good.
2006-09-05 00:28:04 · answer #7 · answered by citrusy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't download thier software it will not help, and the anti-virus it wont remove the spyware because it's not a virus. try downloading the yahoo anti spy it might help.
2006-09-05 00:35:38 · answer #8 · answered by Billyboi 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Try Avast..,its totally free and works great..,also go to Kim Komando,shes a computer radio host and lots of help on her site.
2006-09-05 00:33:54 · answer #9 · answered by halfbright 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you are advanced user you may try try to track wich processes are running after your Windows startUp, use TaskManager.. there you may find suspicious processes, like XXX_named or with some numerals in the names, try kill them and cleanUp your startUp list (use RegCleaner).
Still no results .. then it's in services.. and you need to investigate there
2006-09-05 00:41:18 · answer #10 · answered by Ugi 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋