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Maxwell - 31 Dec 2003 23:04 GMT

Was browsing he web today and came out of Yahoo!browser
and clicked on "Explorer", from a shortcut on the desktop.
"Explorer" started to come up as usual but then a
different search engine, other than the
requested "Explorer" came up in its place. It is
called "Nova----" ( the last four letters are profanity!!
I think my host has been hijacked. this happened once
before and It was an obvious fix..I deleted the suspect
host. Now, however, I can't determine what to do to fix
this new problem. I only have the original host that came
w/the P/C. If I reloaded Internet Explorer 5.5, which is
what I have, will the problem be solved. Also, how do I
reload/reinstall IE 5.5?
Any assistance from you would be of great help. "THANKS"

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glee - 01 Jan 2004 17:00 GMT

Have a look here:
http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/info.htm

http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/Darnit.htm

http://www.spywareinfo.com/articles/hijacked/

Update your anti-virus app and then run a full-system virus scan.

In addition, install Ad-Aware 6 free edition, start it, click its 'Check for Updates' link in the app to install updates, then use it to scan your system, and remove what it finds.
Ad-Aware:
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/

Download and run Hijack This, but don't remove anything with it yet:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads.php
or http://www.merijn.org/files/hijackthis.zip
Follow the instructions at this Tutorial:
http://www.tomcoyote.org/hjt/
to save the log files and paste them into a new post at one of these forums:
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?showforum=11
http://www.net-integration.net/cgi-bin/forum/ikonboard.cgi
http://tomcoyote.org/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=4&tI9

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> Was browsing he web today and came out of Yahoo!browser
> and clicked on "Explorer", from a shortcut on the desktop.
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> reload/reinstall IE 5.5?
> Any assistance from you would be of great help. "THANKS"

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