Re: HijackWare keeps writing different home page to registry

Thanks for the advice; I'm on to it.

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All the best,
Pete

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Rock wrote:
> Pete wrote:
>
>> Hi and thanks for your responses.
>>
>> I have followed all your advice (btw, there was no reference to
>> c:\windows\inetdata or c:\winnit\inetdata on my drive or in
>> HijackThis). I rescanned with Ad-Aware, Norton AntiVirus, Spybot
>> S&D, and HijackThis in safe mode and uncovered a number of seemingly
>> minor problems that were all fixed. Doing this removed the registry
>> entry for www.search-paga.com that showed up in HijackThis and I
>> could open and close my browser several times (while not connected
>> to the internet) and my true home page displayed. Next I rebooted
>> and checked that the home page was still mine - and it was. Finally,
>> I connected to the net to do the final test and much to my
>> frustration up came www.search-paga.com again. It has written itself
>> back to the registry again.
>>
>> I don't understand any of this because I have used the latest tools
>> to clean my system and I have Norton AntiVirus and Firewall
>> installed.
>>
>> Can you provide me any more clues before I literally go insane?
>>
>
> Post the problem and HijackThis log to one of the specialty forums for
> it, not this one.
>
> Forums to Interpret HijackThis Logs:
>
> http://www.spywareinfo.com/forums/
> http://forum.aumha.org/viewforum.php?f=30
> http://forums.tomcoyote.org/
> http://www.wilderssecurity.com/


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