Hijacked Homepage

I bought and paid for a software program called Spy Killer to try and
clean up my system of syware etc. I am using IE 7 .It changed my homepage to
MSN. I have complained to them and first they send the directions to change
your homepage and clicking 'apply" which is something a three yr old can
do.. I told them that I am doing that and it won't let me change my
homepage. They wrote back and said that this is one of the changes
associated with loading thier software and apologized if it caused any
inconvienence.

So I have googled this far and wide and tried running <regedit> and
searched in the registry for anything that would look like MSN.... no go...

I guess I could delete IE 7 and reinstall it, but will lose all of "My
Favourites" and other stuff.

I have ran the uninstall to spy killer and it is gone....but the changes
are still there... Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks....Jimi

 

You got suckered. Spyware Killer is rogueware. See:

http://www.spywarewarrior.com/rogue_anti-spyware.htm

 

Save your favourites prior to reinstall

Disc/Documents & Settings/username/and there it is shazam

 

Search this page for the application "Spykiller".
http://www.spywarewarrior.com/rogue_anti-spyware.htm

Perhaps you could try some reputable (free) software:
http://k75s.home.att.net/tips.html#spyware

 

Or you can download Ad-Aware and Spybot from the makers webistes...
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html

 

How about replying to the original post with your answer not me.

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Download and install Firefox or Opera, you should be able to import your
favourites from IE7.

 

Ask yourself if you really want to trust the advice and files provided
by a person that has all of their posts deleted, hides by 20+ different
identities, and has foul content on their website that they post links
too in Usenet.

Only download software you can validate as uncompromised - in the case
of non-vendor site you have no guarantee that the files are unmodified
or uncompromised. Anyone providing a link to a non-vendors site with a
direct download should not be trusted, the vendors sites are the safest
place to download their application.

No person of sound mind would download files from a hack site that
requires a password to access the unknown files when they are available
directly from the vendors.

Always remember - only download files from Trusted Sites.

The following links will take you to vendors sites for Spy Ware / Ad
ware removal tools and also for Antivirus tools. After you install any
of these applications and update them, run them in SAFE MODE to allow
them to properly clean your system.

First, make sure that your Java is updated to the latest version:
http://www.java.com/en/download/index.jsp

These sites are for downloading Anti-Malware and Anti-Spyware tools, in
order that I would use them myself:

Dave Lipman's tools:
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm

Secured2K's AntiPauper (download link/info at)
http://forums.mcafeehelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=65072

Rogue Fix - This removal tool is the property of Internet Inspiration
http://www.internetinspiration.co.uk/roguefix.htm

AdAwareSE can be found here:
http://www.lavasoft.com/download_and_buy/detection_database/

SpyBot Search and Destroy can be found here:
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html