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Guest Shirley_Crabtree

I was surfing away as usual and all of a sudden I had a new homepage....http://www.findthewebsiteyouneed.com/

Not only did it give me a new homepage ....I had no option to change my homepage to "current" page....Ie I consider this a hacking!!!

What the heck is all that all about???!!!

I can cope with that sort of rhubarb...but millions of surfing newcomers can't!!!Surely we need much more legislation concerning these nasty people taking over peoples systems?!!.

OOh it makes my blood boil!!! :angry:

If you wanna move this feel free.

Cheers.

Shirl.

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Guest northamuk

Why move it? it is a feature of some pretty nasty sites to hijack you Homepage. there is a free downlod to prevent this, it might be home page Guard or something similar, I forget the addy, try a search on Google.

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Removal instructions for a number of hijackers http://www.spywareinfo.com/forums/index.ph...php?act=SF&f=11

and this http://www.spywareinfo.com/forums/index.ph...ewebsiteyouneed refers specifically to the hijacker you have,

Download Hijackthis from http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/ to help in the removal.h

Also Spybot S and D will help in the clear up after

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Yes, Mark's right, Shirley. Spybot has a 'Lock Homepage' feature and it can also prevent IE from running from within. Incidentally, I just ran the Spybot 'immunize' and it added over a hundred new baddies.

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do keep in mind that if you do use Spybot & specifically the Immunize feature, and suddenly develop any "problems" ( such as certain sites are being blocked) you will have to remove that feature. I know of a pc running XP that added immunize and it was having certain game sites blocked ... as usual live & learn !

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