Unbale remove trojan "yourstartingpage.com"

system · 2006-09-22T15:16:58.000Z

Hi, can anyone ancounter this trojan before?

It add a search bar in my taskbar, and when i put in a keyword to will redirect to http://www.yourstartingpage.com/

And my IE homepages is change to http://www.7939.com/.

I scan with Avast first time, it said sucessfull remove the trojan but the http://www.7939.com/ and http://www.yourstartingpage.com/ still exist.

And i found that my connection become slow.

Anyone can help me? Thanks.

DavidR · 2006-09-22T15:23:00.000Z

These are adware and not really something that an anti-virus specialises in there are a number of anti-adware/spyware programs that are better at protecting from this adware/browser hijacking of your startpage.

If you haven’t already got this software (freeware), download, install, update and run it.

Ad-Aware
Spybot Search and Destroy
Spywareblaster Don’t install this until you are clean.

Also look at this ToolbarCop http://www.snapfiles.com/get/toolbarcop.html

system · 2006-09-22T16:29:04.000Z

Hi Khyeloon :

  You have a "Hijacker" on your computer ; for help in
  removing it, ask for help on the forums of your
  antiSPYWARE Provider; if you know of none, I recommend
  the Ad-Aware oriented forums at www.landzdown.com .
  Be prepared to post a "log" of the "HijackThis" program;
  therefore, download HijackThis (© Merijn) from:  http://www.thespykiller.co.uk/files/HJTsetup.exe  .

Note: This is a complete installer that installs HijackThis to your computer at C:\Program Files\HijackThis, making an entry in the start menu and also providing a desktop shortcut. If HijackThis is used from a temp folder, it is in danger of being accidentally deleted by clean up tools.

At the download prompt, choose “Save”. After the download is complete, navigate to the C:\Program Files\HijackThis folder and double-click it to complete the installation.

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