browser hijacked

I have had my browser/home page hijacked with some piece of crap, and now ads seem to pop up regularly.
Dunno which T**T has done that, I haven't downloaded everything.

has this happened to anyone else, I can't get rid without a total reinstall which is a pain

 

Use Mozzila Firefox its much easier in the long run.

 

Have you got an adware/spyware etc. remover?

 

Install Adaware from Lavasoft, its usually good at getting rid of this stuff, last time I had this I found a directory in my program files that looked suspect and renamed it, the ads and popups stopped so I removed it.

If its a particular site you might want to search google for ways to remove it as I suspect you will not be the only one.

Good luck, oh and I agree try not to use IE, as they've used one of IE security holes to do this to your system, you don't want it happening again.

 

I find that Spybot S&D helps keep my machines free from odd things and if you insist upon using IE then S&D has an option to lock the home page of your browser. It also has a little something (TeaTimer?) that tells you when some piece of crap trys to change a value in your Windows registry. Hope this helps.

 

agreed spybot at the ;east, but recommend a mone to mozilla firefox (tabbed browsers are very good)

 

I should add that Firefox does also have some security holes, but because its still a minority browser (10% usage at the very most) nobody bothers exploiting them. There are also many unpatched versions of IE being used, which use ActiveX controls where are an obvious danger.

This reminds me I must patch my parents PC.

 

Be careful here, M$ will have you think that firefox has lots of holes, but because of the nature of Open Source this means any holes are fixed very quickly unlike M$ software where its denied for 6 months and then oh look there is a fix for a security hole we just found (ya like b0l0cks its been there 6 months), you look at the full (non m$ hosted site) bugs and security holes before making these comments.

oh and the kind of security holes in Firefox are generally Unix based problems where you'd need root access to the system to event attempted to exploit.

Even if Firefox had 50% of the market, it'll still be more secure than IE!

My 10p worth

 

try deepnet.