Re: My homepage has been hijacked!

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From: Stu (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/21/04 

Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 12:14:11 -0700

Sorry, I forgot to mention that I have scanned my drive
with the latest Norton def.s and the latest SpyBot def.s.
No viruses, no syware/adware.

>-----Original Message-----
>Hi
>
>Try these programs to check for any spyware that may be
on your system:
>
>Ad-Aware - www.lavasoftusa.com
>Spybot - http://www.safer-networking.org/
>CWShredder -
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html
>
>Also see the following links:
>
>http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
>http://www.microsoft.com/security/articles/spyware.asp
>
>--
>
>Will Denny
>MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
>Please reply to the News Groups
>
>
>"Stu" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
>news:1f73f01c457c0$b2bec2c0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>| Some nasty thing from the internet has changed my
>| homepage in IE to a website called about:blank and it
>| won't let me change the homepage back to Yahoo.com (or
>| anything else)this is very irritating. Any suggestions?
>
>.
>

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