Help please!...I've been hijacked...

[Chaos in 1983!]

my homepage has been hijacked by a website called mywebsearch.com or something like that...my homepage keeps changing to this site and a few popups...

I've already updated and ran Ad-Aware and Spybot...also I've already scanned the comp with CWShredder...it detects the hijack...it deletes it...but when I restart there it is again....

Please...computer freaks...help me out.... :cry:

[abbor]

Try Control Panel -> Add/Remove programs -> Then uninstall "My Web Search"..
The my web search often has the name of the program it came with behind the name..
This at least uninstalls the toolbar, I can't remember if I used something else to get rid of that site

[Chaos in 1983!]

there's nothing strange on add/remove programs or related to mywebserach.com...

I've done this so far and still nothing....I turned off System Restore, scanned with Spybot, AdAware, CWShreder, SpySweeper...all programs seem to "fix" the problem...but then it appears again...even without restarting...

On the windows task manager, under the process tabs...it shows two IEXPLORE.EXE processes running, even without interet explorer open...if I end either one, it will just pop open again...

SpySweeper's Homepage shield keeps alerting me that my homepage has been changed...and asks me if I want to restore it...I accept it...and then a moment later it alerts me again about the homepage hijack...

I've also tried to running all this in safe mode...with the same resutls...

please help me...

Thanks

[abbor]

Your probably fucked If you have the patience, just format!

[saadie]

open regedit goto both of the locations given below \/

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Run
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Run

and delete all the stuff tht you dont need ...

then open msconfig ... remove all the unnecessary stuff ....

then run startup manager (u'll ahve to download it first ) and remove all the crap ..

[nholley]

Have you recently installed any new software? It is possible it is bundled in there somewhere.

I am surprised CWShredder didn't help you, but another excellent program is PestPatrol. You need to buy it, but on the first sweep (even after CWShredder) It found a lot of unwanted things on my PC.


http://www.spyany.com/program/pestpatrol.htm

Also, what Anti Virus are you running? Is it up to date?

Lastly, watch what sites you visit. Some of the more "adult" sites hit you with all kinds of crap.

I run, PestPatrol once a week, run Spysweeper, MCafee Virus Scan and personal firewall and rarely have any problems.

Good Luck!

[stracing]

i go with saadie
i had to download some files from 35mb.com, but to download from them i had download their spyware. everytime i boot up, IE loads up. i got rid of it by deleting all the IE registries. my problem was solved.

[Xploded]

I had the same sort of problem all the spy ware programs I used got ride of it but it just came back, a friend of mine gave me a copy of a virus scanner and it fixed my problem.

[enigmatic]

Easy fix!

Download CWShredder (Cool Web Search Shredder) from here;
http://tools.zerosrealm.com/CWShredder.zip

Run it, click fix, and watch your worries dissapear. 8)
If the link dosn't work you can easily find it elsewear.

[TT]

enigmatic, you probably didn't read the first post.. he already tried that

[enigmatic]

Oops, i should read. ops:
Atleast everyone will know for next time!