From Leo's mailbag:
> From: A Computer User
> Sent: May 10, 2005
> To: Ask Leo!
> Subject: Home Page hijacking
>
> Leo,
> My dad got the thing fixed, whatever it was, but when
> the internet came back up, it had what I\'m guessing is a
> hijacker. I\'m not really sure. With the passage of time -
> about ten minutes I\'m guessing - it\'ll reset my homepage to
> http://w-find.com/index.htm
>
> I\'m not sure how to get rid of it, as I can only remove what
> has w-find in it on Hijack this. Do you know what to do to
> get rid of this? Thanks in advance, Carey.
>
> p.s. ad-aware and Spybot don\'t do the trick either.
I would use Spybot's "inoculation" feature to lock the
home page from being changed. You might also try the
Microsoft Anti-Spyware program.
Thanks for asking,
Leo
Article 192
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Viruses and Malware
