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Post by Chris on Apr 13, 2004 17:22:16 GMT
Hi, I've had a couple of problems I've been trying to sort out for a little while now and not had too much luck. My homepage keeps setting itself to find4u.net/index.htm everytime I reset my computer. I have changed it hundreds of times in Internet Explorer Properties. I have run Bullguard virus checks on the computer and have run Ad-aware 6.0 putting everything which came up in quarrantine. Also when I come to the nethomehelp hopmepage I am not given anywarnings about adware. Does anyone have anyother ideas about what I could try to change this. My computer is quite old now - Windows 98 SE and Pentium III 500. I think I'm running IE 5.0. Secondly I'm having a little trouble with a virus called webcheck.exe. Bullguard picks it up each time I scan my copmuter and puts it in quarrantine. I then delete it but it always returns everytime I scan my computer even this is straight after my deleting it. Bullguard also often pops up and tells me it has stopped me being infected with a wecheck.exe trojan and that my computer has not been infected but it still picks it up every time I scan. I have submitted the virus to Bullguard but not heard anything from them. Has anyone else experienced these kind of problems? I guess I may have to delete it manually but I can't find it where bullguard says it is nor through a standard find files or folders search. If anyone could help I'd be very grateful. Thanks.
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Post by NHH on Apr 14, 2004 11:22:48 GMT
Hi Chris.... Sounds as if the two are related... This 'webcheck' is a trojan/ malware on your system that is resetting your homepage. Having typed webcheck.exe into the ' Virus Search' box on the right of Nethomehelp's front page, I was shown 3 trojans that this file is related to. The virus encyclopedia describes the problems you're having with your homepage in relation to these trojans. The first thing I would do is to run the online 'Housecall' virus scanner also on the front page of Nethomehelp which is very effective at detecting & removing any running malware & trojans aswell as viruses. If no success, try installing & running 'HijackThis!' from Nethomehelp's download page. Good Luck
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