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by gooser12

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I keep getting my homepage set to a weird address and it keeps going back after changing and restarting the browser. The URL it changes to is:

res://plwsl.dll/index.html#96676

I have installed Spybot SD 1.3 to try and get rid of this (I assume that it is spyware causing the problem) but it is persisting. I am trying to find perhaps another program that will get rid of this pesky little occurrence.

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by jim lit

In Spybot, the stay resident piece, there is an option to warn about any registry changes. If you set this on and change your site you should get one message for the change you made and then another for the change being made by the other app/service attempting to reset it back. Make sure to make note of the service/app because you need to shut this down before erasing the registry entries it uses to start up on your reboot.

by jim lit

I forgot to mention that some of these URL Hijacking routines use many registry entries so if you find a rogue app make sure you search for any reference of it and any reference of keys related to it.

If you just delete the registry entries before stopping the app then the app will put them right back, and if you reboot without clearing the registry entries for the app the app will just rerun. It is a vicious circle.

by sgt_shultz

when spybot and ad-aware won't get rid of something, try logging in under each of the profiles on the machine and running spyware remover within each profile, see? maybe your son or daughter got it logged in under their profile...

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