RE: Computer hijacked, with lots of persistent spy/adwares
From: Bee Nguyen (Nguyen_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/12/04
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Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 07:31:02 -0800
Try this solution, it might help:
1. Create a new user, log on with new user and use IE. If everything is ok,
and IE works normally, then delete the (old) user name with was having
problem with IE (adware, always get to specific search website,...). One of
my client was having the same problem and before trying to reinstall
everything, I tried this and it worked perfectly. Hope you can fix with this.
Advice:
2. My next advice to prevent this kind of adware and stuff like that is not
to log on with administrator rights. That mean create a USER with Normal USER
rights (not Admin of not Power User). And everytime you use the internet,
suft web,... log on by using the normal user account. Only log on to admin or
power user account when you want to make change to your system.
3. Last but not least: Turn on FIREWALL. There's is no need to install
adware remover or any stuff like that if you don't like to make any more
trouble to the system and slow the computer down.
"Rafael" wrote:
> Microsoft must react, did you try to use the internet these days with
> Internet Explorer? It's chaos outside!!! We get bombed with spyware and
> adware all the way up. And what bothers more is that these small buggers are
> becoming really smart and install themselves automatically without any
> authorization and in a more impossible way to delete them.
>
> My home page is set to about:blank, it doesn't change, but it happens that
> everytime I open IE6, it goes automatically to a webpage that disables the
> right-click on itself so we cannot view the source code. There is one way to
> view it, simply go to View menu and select Source. It mentions
> www.searchxp.com, www.search-all-fast.com and www.rb37.com. When I go to
> these sites, they don't give me the option to unistall any software that
> might have been installed by them. And within the webpage that opens
> automatically, when I click any hyperlink, it just doesn't go there. I've
> tried all major spyware/adware removers, BHO removers, and yes, they find a
> lot of malicious stuff, they remove them, but right after I removed that, I
> search again, and there they are again automatically installed. I've cleared
> the running processes, and still they appear there. Also there are lots of
> pop-ups all over. I've disabled the Messenger "Service", it disabled some of
> the pop-ups, but from time to time I'm bombed with one or other. There is one
> that was particularly boring, it mentioned falkag something, I went to the
> site, but nothing...
> Shouldn't someone sue Microsoft for ignoring this privacy/security issues?
>
> Can you give any help here?
> Thanks...
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