not sure if this is spyware... but i need help urgently...
From: Lee (rk_shinta_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/11/04
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Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 09:25:13 -0700
hi... i'm currently using IE6 on XP Home Edition... as of
now, i've already used AdAware and Webroot Spy Sweeper on
my system and i would say that most of the adware and
spyware has been removed. my system also uses a firewall
and an anti-virus program (norton).
however, i'm having big problems...
Problem #1: for some reason, there's this bug (or
something) in my computer that makes my IE not
acknowledge the settings i put on Tools -> Internet
Options. When I say "Use Blank" for my default webpage,
no matter how many times i do it, when i close the
browser and open a new one, the address always points to
http://hununt.outhost.info/
worse, some bookmarks seem to find their way into my
Favorites...
Problem #2: Sometimes, when I type a URL for a site and i
press enter, before the site loads, the browser just
closes... Some of these happen to be sites that discusses
something on spyware... One happened to be the site of
AdAware... I dunno if there's a connection though... I
retried it enough times to know it wasn't a fluke...
Problem #3: is there a way to shut down all those
redirect sites? like umax, coolwebsearch...?
Last problem: I don't think this is fully connected with
browsers but I needed to ask this specifically 'coz it's
been bugging me...
I wanted to use SpyBot to check my system but for some
reason, when the download is about to finish, the
download process just hangs or quits... my friend emailed
me the program but i can't seem to download it... I tried
it on my other computer and the downloads (email or
otherwise) proceed to the end... when i copied the
program to a cd or my flash drive, my computer can't even
find the file!
What further confuses me is the fact that when i finally
got to install adaware to my system (via burning the
installer from my other comp), it quarantined and deleted
the whatnots it found... My comp finally finds the
missing files i just described in the previous paragraph
but it still won't install... I ran the installers but
they just quit midway for no reason...
if you can help me, i would truly appreciate it :) i
dunno why spy sweeper got installed but it wasn't only
spybot that didn't want to install... i ended up
downloading 3 spyware removers and only 1 didn't quit
midway through installation...
again, if you would be able to help me, i would really,
really appreciate it!
Thanks for your time :)
Lee
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