RE: Homepage keeps resetting itself

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From: mixon (mixon_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/11/04 

Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 15:21:01 -0700

I seem to have contracted this parasite as well. I'm running Win98se w/IE6;
and an updated NortAV and Spyhunter doesn't find it. Can someone post a way
or direct me to a way to manually remove it through regedit?
Thks in advance to anyone who can help.

"stuart" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm using Windows XP Home Edition and IE6. I cannot get my IE6 homepage to
> stay as www.google.com. When ever I open IE6 the address bar says about:blank
> and an additonal pop-up window opens saying Warning! I have been exposed to
> spyware.
>
> I keep going to Internet Options within the Control Panel to change the
> homepage but it keeps going back to the one I stated above. In addition I
> have noticed that when I re-type www.google.com into the Homepage address in
> Internet Options it shows me all the websites that have been visited, so how
> do I clear that out aswell?. I have run Ad-Aware to try and remove spyware,
> but I'm not really sure if it works as pop-ups still occur, even with McAfee
> Personnel Firewall and Norton Anti-Virus running. I also installed the XP
> Service Pack 2 but this gave all sorts of problems.
>
> Can anybody help me solve this?
>
> Thanks.