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Update your anti-virus app and then run a full-system virus scan.
Read here:
Dealing with Hijackware
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/Darnit.htm#tshoot
http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm
http://doxdesk.com/parasite/CoolWebSearch.html
and
http://www.merijn.org/cwschronicles.html
Use CWShredder, the CoolWeb removal tool, available here:
http://computercops.biz/downloads-cat-14.html
http://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads31.html
http://aumha.org/downloads/cwshredder.zip
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/
Install, update and run SpyBot Search & Destroy, scan your system, and then remove the items in RED only.
SpyBot S&D:
http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=download
If the problems still exist, continue with this:
Download, unzip, and run Hijack This from one of these locations:
http://computercops.biz/downloads-cat-14.html
http://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads31.html
http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads/tools/HijackThis.exe
Unzip to a folder other than your Desktop or the Temp folder, doubleclick HijackThis.exe, and hit "Scan".
When the scan is finished, the "Scan" button will change into a "Save Log" button.
Press that, save the log somewhere you can find it (Desktop, My Documents, or similar).
Most of what it lists will be harmless or even required, so do NOT fix anything yet.
Copy the log files and paste them into a new post at one of these forums:
http://forums.net-integration.net/
http://computercops.biz/forums.html
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?showforum=30
http://tomcoyote.org/forums/
http://www.lavasoftsupport.com
http://boards.cexx.org/
The folks there will tell you what to remove.
A tutorial for using Hijack This is located here:
http://aumha.org/a/hjttutor.htm
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Glen Ventura, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
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"Plugger" <Plugger1@netscape.net> wrote in message news:407ED1D9.3E2E@netscape.net...
> Hugh , Allen & Ben ....... i appreciate your help ..... downloaded and
> installed fine .... Everything is working well . Still getting page
> faults in IE(which is why i deleted it in the first place) .... Seems to
> be primarily on ".net" websites ...... prior to deleting my previous IE
> the homepage was taken over by a search page ... always made itself my
> homepage .... the HTTP was many letters numbers & %%% signs ... any help
> here would be greatly appreciated ....... My son thanks everyone for
> getting his outlook express back .....