home page highjacked

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billb

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3,198 posts

272 months

Wednesday 10th September 2003
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i cant get my default homepage to stay on google as i want it as it keeps going to "global-finder.com" whatever i do - any ideas how to get rid of this? have tried deleting cookies, all settings in explorer re setting your default page and have done a search for global-finder on my hard drive which has come up with nothing? anyone else had this prob?

thanks

FourWheelDrift

89,646 posts

291 months

Wednesday 10th September 2003
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Control Panel/Internet Options - Homepage

Type www.google.co.uk in the box and click OK

billb

Original Poster:

3,198 posts

272 months

Wednesday 10th September 2003
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FourWheelDrift said:
Control Panel/Internet Options - Homepage

Type www.google.co.uk in the box and click OK


done that but every time i shut down explorer and open it back up again sodding global-finder.com reappears...

mikeN

276 posts

262 months

Wednesday 10th September 2003
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size13

2,032 posts

264 months

billb

Original Poster:

3,198 posts

272 months

Wednesday 10th September 2003
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mikeN said:
www.spywareinfo.com/articles/hijacked/

Mike


thanks - downloaded "highjackthis" program from here and it got rid of it - it recommends spybot to stop it happening again so will look at that for future

Marcos maniac

3,148 posts

268 months

Thursday 11th September 2003
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Bl00dy quickfind.com just highjacked mine :mad;

dick dastardly

8,319 posts

270 months

Thursday 11th September 2003
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I get these once in a while. I just go to 'add/remove programmes' and they have always been in the list