Dammit, hijacked

[simpo two]

Bugger. My homepage has been set to C:searchpage.html which I understand is the work of the CoolWebSearch trojan.
I already have AdAware and Spybot, but whilst the former found 59 Wild Tangents and the latter found two registry changes, the problem persisted.
So I downloaded and ran CWShredder, which removed 2 or 3 entries, but the problem persisted. I've removed every reference to searchpage.html in the registry (twice!) and reset the default homeapge, but to no avail. There's something in there that's resetting it.

I've run out of ideas - can anyone help please?

[BrianTheYank]

i have the same problem too. i just dont really care since it only changes it every time i restart my computer and I just leave it on day in and day out so it barely ever has a chance to reset itself.

[watkid]

If your using yahoo, you can change the default homepage to whatever you want from the tools menu and then choosing Internet options. Hope this helps

Dave

[arcturus]

Just a general observation which many may not have twigged to.

If you are running the free version of AdAware, then it is mereley a clean-up tool that, when you run it manually will seek and destroy the bad guys that may have got onto your machine since you last ran it.

It does not prevent them getting on to your machine in the first place.

If you want AdAware to stay memory resident and stop things getting on to your machine, you need to upgrade to the Plus version which I believe costs $27.

Worth it in my opinion. (Although I use Pest Patrol, not AdAware or Spybot)

[FunkyNige]

arcturus said:

If you want AdAware to stay memory resident and stop things getting on to your machine, you need to upgrade to the Plus version which I believe costs $27.

Or justinstall Spybot and Spyware blaster, since having these two on my system, Ad-Aware hasn't found anything.

[pmanson]

Try this.........

www.computercops.us/postt31674.html

Helped me a lot. When i had this the other week

[simpo two]

Fixed it! Rather than poke about in lists of recently modified files, I did System Restore - and the b*stard has gone.

[Pentoman]

Try Hijack This too, but you need to know what you're doing, you can disable need stuff