Re: "HomeSearch" Browser Hijacker

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From: Touch Base (animals_at_thezoo.com)
Date: 08/16/04 

Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 23:07:25 +1000

Download this program called 'AboutBuster'
Website : www.malwarebytes.biz OR
http://www.spychecker.com/download/download_aboutbuster.html
This program removes the Home Search Assistant. Have a look at the readme
file become using.

Another program to run after it would be CWShredder

http://www.net-integration.net/tools/hijackthis.html

CWShredder a small utility for removing CoolWebSearch (aka CoolWwwSearch,
YouFindAll, White-Pages.ws and a dozen other names). Spybot S&D tends to
forget essential parts of the hijack, so until it updates, you can just do
this to completely remove the hijack. Updated to remove the new variants
once they come out.
http://www.allsecpros.com/download/CWShredder.exe

Any known information regarding CoolWebSearch can be found in the
CoolWebSearch Chronicles at
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html

http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareblaster.html (Free)
SPYWAREBLASTER doesn't scan and clean for spyware - it prevents it from ever
being installed. How? By setting a "kill bit" for the spyware ActiveX
controls, it prevents the installation of any of them from a webpage. You
can run Internet Explorer with Active-X enabled, but you will never even get
a "Yes/No" box popped up, asking you to install a spyware Active-X control
(Internet Explorer will never download or run it!). All other Active-X
controls or plug-ins will work fine. The SpywareBlaster database contains
information on these known spyware Active-X controls. Make sure you run the
Check For Updates feature frequently to get the latest database! (And make
sure you check the new items to protect your system against them!)

A wealth of information on many of the spyware items that SpywareBlaster
protects against can be accessed here: http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite/
This site can also check any scum/spyware you might have acquired, in most
cases unknowingly, in trips around the internet.

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareguard.html (Free)
SpywareGuard
Provides a real-time protection solution against spyware that is a great
addition to SpywareBlaster's protection method.

An anti-virus program scans files before you open them and prevents
execution if a virus is detected - SpywareGuard does the same thing, but for
spyware! And you can easily have an anti-virus program running alongside
SpywareGuard.

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/bhblaster.html (Free)
BROWSER HIJACK BLASTER protects your system from browser hijackers and
spyware that alters your Internet Explorer settings. Running silently in the
background, Browser Hijack Blaster only springs into action when an attempt
is made. It watches and protects the following items:
IE Homepage, IE Default Page, IE Search Page, BHOs. Whenever one of the
above items is changed, or a BHO is added, you are immediately provided with
information on the item, along with the option to keep the change, or revert
to your previous settings.

<Mike-FCC>; "INC" <Mike-FCC,INC@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1D6997DA-55CC-4508-AFFA-F4C80EC5E126@microsoft.com...
> I have had trouble with my browser home page being hijacked to a random
> search page everytime it opens. Page set to ramdom dll files
> "res://????.dll/index.html # 2690 (random). Spent 2 hrs on phone with
> microsoft t/s; no help; loaded Spybot S&D, Adaware, etc. All to no help.
> This is especially hard to remove in Windows XP because you can't remove
IE.
> Also Win98 or Win-ME... HELP please.
> Michael Hamilton
> Computer Tech (14yrs)
> First Capital Computers, Inc.

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