Okay, I stumbled upon some Trojan, but luckily my up-to-date McAfee detected it and deleted it. 2 adware programs were found, and I deleted them. However, my IE home page always stays set on some damn ad page, I can't change it! I really need help fixing this problem. What sucks is I just formatted my hard drive a couple of days ago! If you know of anything to fix this, I'd appreciate it. Thank you very much.
Please Help ASAP! Adware Problem!
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cooliscool
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In addition to spybot you should download CWShredder and run it after you run spybot. 
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Well, after messing with the registry, Search and Destroy indicates that my problems are fixed, but they are not. However, I have been able to reset the homepage, but once I quit IE and restart it, it goes back. There's also some stuff in Add or Remove Programs in the Control Panel that is related to this but I cannot delete.
refraction
PCSX2 Coder
could possibly be this virus, had it a few days ago and its a sod
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/trojan.ecure.html
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/trojan.ecure.html
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OK, I did a System Restore and it's fixed (hopefully)! Thank you everyone who replied! :bouncy:
BTW, before I formatted my hard drive, I did use Firefox. However, other people that use my computer use IE, though, so I am the only one that uses Firefox. But I should still re-download it sometime for myself anyway.
BTW, before I formatted my hard drive, I did use Firefox. However, other people that use my computer use IE, though, so I am the only one that uses Firefox. But I should still re-download it sometime for myself anyway.
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smcd
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If you like IE and other people use it, you might be interested in www.myie2.com I like it a lot, it has built in ad-blocking, popup blocking, and is generally more secure against "browser hijacking" than the default "IE" that it is based upon.
