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[CoolShark]

i am having a problem with my IE homepage. I ran spybot and got rid of some spyware, cookies ...

when i add the url address for the homepage i want it does not stay. When i restart IE it goes back to myseachnow.com.....any thoughts?

any help much appreciated

CS

[wks]

CoolShark, have you updated spybot lately? I had that happen to me but after running spybot it was fine. Also clear history and temp files.

[ZyklonB]

You've been hijacked. I HATE that crap. I just rescued my neighbor from a similer sitch. Spybot couldn't get rid of the one he had (It was something like windowws). We ultimatley had to uninstall IE and reinstall.

[Dave420]

look for mysearchnow in add and remove programs -many of the hijack programs can be removed there(just remove all searchbar programs)did this get installed with kazza or something?if yes you may need to uninstall the program it came with.

[Bond]

Sometimes this is the result of a Browser Helper Object (BHO) that is attached to IE whenever you load it.

There's a cool program called "Hijack This" that you can download at the following location:
http://www.siena.edu/antivirus/Spyware/hijackthis.htm

It will display all the BHO's, as well as all programs that load at startup, downloaded program files, and more. You can remove them if you see something suspicious (like those named "mysearchnow") and it will create backups in case you accidentally removed something you shouldn't have.

Oh, and use the Standard Version.

[CoolShark]

thanks all...i will give this a shot