[Ham-Computers] Browser Hijackers

[jeff]

On Sat, 2004-07-24 at 12:20, larryasp wrote:
> Has anyone found the right way of removing Browser HIjackers 

I use a combination of Ad-Aware, Spybot, and Hijack This.

These are all pretty good and free, but you have to be careful with
Hijack.  It's the most powerful and also the most dangerous.   It will
tell you everything that's been modified from standard, so if you set
your own browser home page, it'll report this.  So long as you use it
with care, you're in good shape.

The latest hijackers are NASTY.  Hijack will find them, remove them, and
they'll pop back up in the registry.  If this happens, note the path or
registry entry, reboot in safe mode, and remove.  Turn off system
restore first if your Windows OS has it (XP does, 2000 doesn't).

If you're really curious about where this nonsense comes from, there are
a number of spyware forums on the web (where I found out about Hijack). 
The short course is that this junk comes through everyone's favorite
virus magnet - Internet Explorer.  You need to jack up your security
settings in order to prevent hijackings.  Or use a different browser (I
prefer Opera - it's free, small, fast, without popups, and runs on Win
and linux).