OT How to prevent someone changing my home page

2004-05-29 Thread Mike Kear
( Sorry for the Off Topic post, but you're the guys who will know what I'm looking for ) There's a spyware app or trojan or something changing the home page on my browser all the time and it's giving me a lot of heartburn.Every time I delete the app that changes it, and all references to it in

OT How to prevent someone changing my home page

2004-05-29 Thread mkear
( Sorry for the Off Topic post, but you're the guys who will know what I'm looking for ) There's a spyware app or trojan or something changing the home page on my browser all the time and it's giving me a lot of heartburn.Every time I delete the app that changes it, and all references to it in

Re: OT How to prevent someone changing my home page

2004-05-29 Thread Gerry Demaret
Mike Kear wrote: There's a spyware app or trojan or something changing the home page on my browser all the time and it's giving me a lot of heartburn.Every time I delete the app that changes it, and all references to it in the registry, it finds its way back again. I'll track it down eventually

Re: OT How to prevent someone changing my home page

2004-05-29 Thread Doug White
== - Original Message - From: Mike Kear To: CF-Talk Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2004 10:42 AM Subject: OT How to prevent someone changing my home page ( Sorry for the Off Topic post, but you're the guys who will know what I'm looking for ) There's a spyware app

Re: OT How to prevent someone changing my home page

2004-05-29 Thread techmike
: Sat, 29 May 2004 17:56:09 +0200 Subject: Re: OT How to prevent someone changing my home page Mike Kear wrote: There's a spyware app or trojan or something changing the home page on my browser all the time and it's giving me a lot of heartburn.Every time I delete the app that changes

RE: OT How to prevent someone changing my home page

2004-05-29 Thread Jim Davis
a general system health check. Well worth running every once in a while or after you've rebuilt. Jim Davis _ From: Doug White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2004 12:37 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: OT How to prevent someone changing my home page I suggest running spybot

RE: OT How to prevent someone changing my home page

2004-05-29 Thread Jim Davis
I lied - it appears they have begun offering an online spyware/adware checker at pcpitstop.com Jim Davis _ From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2004 1:06 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: OT How to prevent someone changing my home page The online tests

Re: OT How to prevent someone changing my home page

2004-05-29 Thread Dan Blickensderfer
I use Ad Awarehttp://www.ad-aware.comIt's very good. Dan - Original Message - From: Mike Kear To: CF-Talk Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2004 11:42 AM Subject: OT How to prevent someone changing my home page ( Sorry for the Off Topic post, but you're the guys who will know what I'm looking

Re: OT How to prevent someone changing my home page

2004-05-29 Thread Arden Weiss
I too use AdAware 6.0 (along with the memory resident Ad-Watch) in addition to Symantec virus protection software. Further I also have a firewall in place as provided by my Belkin wireless router.The entire set of product types are required to provide a good defense to the various intruders our