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Posted by Malke on July 25, 2005, 10:08 pm
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Jared Schrag wrote:
> I am certain that many users have already posted requesting help with
> this. However, as I have just setup my newsgroups reader, I am failing
> to find help with this during any of the searches I have tried. With
> that in mind here goes...
>
> I am running Windows XP Pro (Svc. Pack 2) and was attacked several
> weeks ago
> by something that reset my home page to about.blank. Very annoying.
> I researched on the Internet and found some wonderful advice which
> lead me to the offending files and registry entries -- all of which I
> removed
> successfully! Yeah! Except there is this one lingering issue --
> Trusted Sites attempting to auto-add themselves to my IE Trusted Sites
> list.
>
> Now, the only reason I am aware of this is because I am currently
> running what is most likely quite an outdated MS AntiSpyware software
> (probably the
> beta version still). Every time I logon, I get several "green"
> messages from this software informing me of allowed items (of which I
> am not concerned), but at the end I am always getting an alert ("blue"
> alert) informing me of some site trying to be added to the Trusted
> Sites list in
> IE. Each time, it is a different site (e.g. just now solongas.com
> tried to
> be added automatically). Now, each time this alert pops up, I choose
> to
> block it and everything seems fine. However, it is very annoying to
> have to do this extra step after logging on every single time.
>
> Is there a procedure I can perform to detect the root cause of this
> auto-adding functionality and remove it? I suspect there are some
> rouge registry entries and/or some bad files in my filesystem which,
> once deleted, will no longer attempt to add any sites to my IE Trusted
> Sites list automatically.
Your machine has malware. Follow these general removal steps
systematically, doing everything in Safe Mode with updated tools:
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Removing_Malware
Malke
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MS-MVP Windows User/Shell
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
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