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[Ciaran]

Some spyware sets your home page to about:blank but theres nothing wrong with setting it that way.

[Alastair]

.... Then, use Highjack This to kill it dead ....

Is there anything about that will do the same as Hijack-This but for free?

I have Ad-Aware and Spybot but they don't seem to be picking up half the stuff this found on it's free check, especially the DLLs.

[Ciaran]

Hijack this is free.

http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html

[Alastair]

To check what's on there, but to delete it it said I had to register for $29.95

[Ciaran]

I've just downloaded it and removed something from my startup list free.

[Alastair]

Then I'm confused

[Alastair]

Hang on - I downloaded the wrong thing

It was from a website called hijack-this though! Cheeky buggers. I think I've got the right one now.

[Chadruharazzeb]

Moved from the Movie Thread (?!?!)

[gingerj]

I've got this REALLY annoying spyware just installed on my machine out of the blue (as always), its hijacked my IE start page and I just can't delete it through any programs nor manually. I dunno its name but it uses an sp.html file to **** eveything up back i just can't find it and i can find the sp.dll but windows wont let me delete it. Erm anyone removed this thing? every 2minutes i get like a popup of some sort its really pissing me off.

[Ciaran]

http://www.2-spyware.com/file-sp-dll.html

[gingerj]

Thanks for the url, still can't get rid of it i've even gone to ms-dos to delete it and it says access denied. I think it quite possibly the godfather of all spyware.

[Ciaran]

Did you try the link on that site to:

http://www.2-spyware.com/remove-clearsearch.html

http://www.2-spyware.com/remove-tinybar.html

http://www.2-spyware.com/remove-igetnet.html

These are all related to sp.dll

[gingerj]

Its a bitch to remove i've deleted the file se.dll in safe mode, then went to regedit and remove every item that relates to it and its still back for more

[Link]

Bah, bah and bah. I've got this thing that comes up in the task bar that asks to update windows, I never noticed it. It's like a little yellow shield thing and it says it's a windows up date. My dad clicked it and downloaded it. I noticed the computer was running a bit slower, so I ran adaware and it found that there was `malware` frim `windupdate` and `blazefind`. The windupdate one adaware says is a high risk one. However, Adaware can't remove them which is a bit rubbish. Has anybody got any idea how i'll be able to get rid of it? Thanks very much.

UPDATE

I just downloaded hi jack this, and it got infected with a worm straight away, but macAfree detected it and deleted the worm and hi jack this

[jassi singh]

MSN Virus...bastard. (oops didnt see sticky. :\ )

Left my MSN on all day today, came back to see a message from someone saying

"OMG This is so funny *Link of some kind*"

Think the file extension was "Cute" or somthing

I cba to click the link, so i just closed the msn window. Then i got it again, from someone...and again.

Finnally i recieved one from Smegaman, i asked if this was some new internet joke thats going around. I also asked how come everyone has written the same sentance...Like a prat when i got no reply, i clicked it. It seemed to open everyone who is on my msn list, and sent them the same message. Just ran a virus scan and ive got 21 infected files because of this. (only ran my virus checker this morning and everthing was fine.) So far, i dunno what its done other than spam messages.

Anyone else get this? Not sure if the virus checker will be enough....MEH!