Re: HomeSearchAssistant problem

From: Kelly Cotter (kelly.cotter_at_*deletethis*blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: 07/01/04 

Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 13:38:01 GMT

"Maxxis" <Maxxis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E600F37A-EB4D-4E1A-AC5A-6F643524DC1F@microsoft.com
> Hello, everytime I go into IE (6) My home page is not what it should
> be, for example I have set it to "www.msn.ca" when I log off IE do to
> somehting else remotely, and go back into IE, the home page is
> changeed and this is what I get "res://xbqyr.dll/index.html#96676",
> There are 3 items in my add remove preogram list: HomeSearch,
> ShoppingWizard and SearExtender, everytime I try to remove them the
> error message appears:
> Problem with shortcut; unable to find
> http://lookingfor-cc/uninstallHomeSearchAssistant/index.html
> I have manually entered this url or close to it, found the page oof
> the uninstaller but it does not work.
> Does any body know how to remove the entry and restore the original
> Home page setting, this is software I had not downloaded, so unalbe
> to reinstall to remove.

download and run these be sure to update them

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/ adaware

http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=download spybot

http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=download cwshredder

http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html some other usefull removal
tools

also do a full virus scan 

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