HELP with homepage/favorites

message from =?Utf-8?B?RGVr?= on 11 Jun 2004
I have a site that keeps adding itself to my fav. list, also I think that the site keeps changing my homepage. I have run two spyware/adware programs and nothing...I even went and downloaded a program to save my homepage and that did not work either....HELP me please!!!!!
 
Quentin David Jones replied to =?Utf-8?B?RGVr?= on 12 Jun 2004
Greetings,

That is almost certainly spyware.

AdAware from Lavasoft (Cleaner)
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
Install, update, scan weekly

SpyBot Search and Destroy (Cleaner + Blocker)
http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=download
Install, update, immunise, scan weekly

Spyware Blaster 3 (Blocker)
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
Install, update, enable protection 2 types

If its a Web Search - try this -

http://www.softpedia.com/public/cat/10/17/10-17-150.shtml

Quentin

"Dek" <Dek@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:44763F89-07D7-4D34-924E-27D7500EEA4A@microsoft.com...
the site keeps changing my homepage. I have run two spyware/adware programs
and nothing...I even went and downloaded a program to save my homepage and
that did not work either....HELP me please!!!!!
 

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