ie default page

Try Ad-Aware. It's free.
www.lavasoftusa.com

Adaware is a must have for clean up but it doesn't stop a lot of browers hijacks.

I found IE SPYAD is a useful free tool that just adds some entries to the certificates list that blocks a lot of hijacks and there's also hijack this which works well. There is also CWShredder for removing a similar exploit, worth it to check if you have the exploit.

You will also want to use a trojan scanner to find any worms in your system that will restart the exploit after reboot.

LINKS:

IE SPY AD: http://tinyurl.com/35ugu

HIJACK THIS: http://tinyurl.com/u5su

CW SHREDDER: http://tinyurl.com/3ch8x

OTHER TROJAN REMOVAL TOOLS AND SCANNERS:
http://tinyurl.com/3xmgb (Many are not free though)

Scan, Clean, Protect and you should be OK.

In order to prevent web sites from changing your home page, you need to install a utility such as "Start Page Guard".

http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads/spg/

These utilities warn you when anything attempts to change your home / start page.

Chas

I have also found Spybot-Search & Destroy very good at ridding a system of hijackers.

http://security.kolla.de

Cheers

Alan

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