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sinrakin
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Joined: 11 Oct 2002
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Posted: 03/26/04 - 09:41 Post subject: Need help unfucking IE

Some site screwed up my browser. I've been getting a bunch of popup ads, and I noticed my home page is now set to whatever the hell this is: res://mshp.dll/index.html#37049 I ran spybot, updated it, and deleted everything, did it again, set it so spybot would run on system startup before anything else ran, etc. But I can't fix the home page. It must have changed a registry entry or something that makes it so the "Set Homepage" box under Internet Options is dimmed out so I can't change it. Any idea how to fix it?

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kemble
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Joined: 14 Oct 2002
Posts: 1912
Location: MI

Posted: 03/26/04 - 09:46 Post subject:

Download CWShredder and run it. It will get rid of your problem. IIRC that hompage is from 'Cool Web Search' spyware. http://209.133.47.200/~merijn/files/CWShredder.exe

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Zuldane
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Posted: 03/26/04 - 09:47 Post subject:

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Celestra
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Posts: 6929

Posted: 03/26/04 - 09:48 Post subject:

A hammer and a crowbar! I wish I had anything helpful to offer but all I have is this: Zwad(10:36 AM) : i tried fixing my comp. i bought for 100+ euro's on new stuff, and all the f*****g shit wouldnt fit! Celestra(10:39 AM) : ugh Celestra(10:39 AM) : so howd you get it working again? Zwad(10:39 AM) : a hammer and a crowbar Zwad(10:39 AM) : what you mean the mutherfucker wont fit

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kemble
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Joined: 14 Oct 2002
Posts: 1912
Location: MI

Posted: 03/26/04 - 09:50 Post subject:

Oh, I forgot to add.... go to http://www.mozilla.org and download firefox or better yet, uninstall windows and install slackware!

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sinrakin
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Posted: 03/26/04 - 10:03 Post subject:

Yeah, it is Coolwebsearch. It keeps coming back. It's hard to get rid of; spybot keeps saying it can't delete it until I reboot because it's memory resident, then when I reboot it deletes it, but as soon as I get control of the system it's back again. It must be built into something that runs at startup. I'll try CWShredder, thanks.

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sinrakin
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Posted: 03/26/04 - 10:17 Post subject:

Yay, that cwshredder did the trick. It pointed out that it was actually Spybot that was preventing me from changing my home page - that's part of it's "immunize" function to set a policy that you can't change it, but there are still back door ways to change it and it ends up just making it so you can't change it back I deleted the Microsoft java VM since I have the Sun VM anyway. I don't understand how taking advantage of bugs in stuff like the Java VM to change settings on people's computers and download ads they don't want to see doesn't fall under computer hacking laws btw.

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Syke
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Joined: 12 Oct 2002
Posts: 2976
Location: Huntington Beach, CA

Posted: 03/26/04 - 14:45 Post subject:

sinrakin wrote:

Yay, that cwshredder did the trick. It pointed out that it was actually Spybot that was preventing me from changing my home page - that's part of it's "immunize" function to set a policy that you can't change it, but there are still back door ways to change it and it ends up just making it so you can't change it back Smile

I deleted the Microsoft java VM since I have the Sun VM anyway.

I don't understand how taking advantage of bugs in stuff like the Java VM to change settings on people's computers and download ads they don't want to see doesn't fall under computer hacking laws btw.

Me either...it's down right scandalous...I don't use any browser plug-ins for that specific reason. No pop-ups or crazy computer manipulating spyware for me thx.

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