Hijack This is another great one. My mom had the same problem and that's what I used on her comp to fix it.

 

I would do it but I am at work right now... I really wanna know too.

 

just did it - nothing happened except some search results - on sites i don't really trust.

 

Ok cool, spysweeper is popping up a window everytime I open up IE. Its helping block out that wack website that defaults my homepage. Thanks man haha Im running hella sheilds on my comp and it seems to be working at the moment.

 

ever use Norton Internet Security? that thing is a beast on the internet - same with ZoneAlarm.

 

It costs $30 to use most of the features.

 

thats why youre not supposed to SEARCH FOR "Joseph Paolino serial" in google. :rick:

 

:lmfao:

:rofl:

AHHHHHHH!!!! How clever

 

Meh, I'm fine with my free stuff. My mom downloaded this program called Spydoctor or something. It found all of these "problems" that could only be fixed if you buy the full version. Sounds like a crock of shit to me.

 

Your browser has been hijacked, probably by some piece of scumware editing the HOSTS file. The HOSTS file lives in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC (substitute WINNT for WINDOWS if you're using Windows 2000).

Open HOSTS with Notepad. (CAUTION: NEVER open HOSTS with Word Pad, Word, WordPerfect or any word processor that adds formatting to the file. Strictly text editors only.) You will see a lot of lines of text preceeded by #, which are comment lines. The only line without a # at the beginning should be:

127.0.0.1 localhost

If there's anything else in the HOSTS file other than the # lines and that one line, delete them all and save the file. Once you've done that, set its properties to Read Only. That won't stop all hijackers, but it will slow most of them down.