On 20 Oct 2003 at 22:01, Jim Sharkey wrote: > > It seems I have an unwelcome visitor, of sorts, on my computer. Every > time I boot up, my home page is redirected to > http://solongas.com/main/hp.htm, which shows up on my site window as > http://66.250.130.194/index.php?acc=2002. It's basically some BS > search engine. > > It's not a virus that's doing it, according to Norton, and neither > Ad-Aware nor SpyBot Search & Destroy have taken care of this problem. > My guess is the culprit is a program called "loader.exe" which hs > recently been added to my Windows directory. When I change my home > page to somethign else, then doubleclick that program, it changes back > to this page. This "loader.exe" program cannot be deleted, at least > by normal means.
Spybot Search & Destroy can lock your start page. Also try running SS&D in advanced mode, go into options, tick "get beta updates", and see if the added includes detect it. It sounds like something they DID have a fix for. Andy Dawn Falcon _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
