Home Page Problem

Renegade

<div class="IPBDescription">Cause: Unknown</div> Since this is the only board I feel I can post on without being poked fun at, it's only apt that I share a rather annoying problem I've been having as of late. Every time I start up IE, my home page is not what it should be (Planet Half-Life). Instead, it brings up some multi-category search site with pr0n banner up the, well, you know. Don't ask me how it got this way, because I have no idea (I haven't been surfing any illicit web-pages, so don't start with me), all I know is I set the web page back to what it should be, and as long as I don't restart my computer, it stays that way. But once I <b>do</b> restart my computer, it resets to that damn annoying search page. Someone please help. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo-->

Jimmeh

Get Spybot S&D and AdAware from the stickied topic.

Shockeh

Or, if we're being nice & save you some clicks....

<a href='http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/' target='_blank'> Ad Aware, </a>
bouncing here & there and everywhere......
high adventure that's beyond compare,
this is <a href='http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/' target='_blank'> Ad Aware, </a>
this is <a href='http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/' target='_blank'> Ad Aware!</a>

Copyright Disney Corporation™, probably.

Jimmeh

<a href='http://security.kolla.de/' target='_blank'>Spybot Search and Destroy</a>

SkulkBait

And if none of that works (it should, its good stuff), you could switch to <a href='http://mozilla.org/products/firefox/' target='_blank'>Firefox</a> or <a href='http://www.opera.com/' target='_blank'>Opera</a> as a last resort.

Renegade

Not working. I've already got Spybot.

Thansal

get adaware also

spybot tends not to remove ALOT of stuff.

spy bot will catch about 6 things, and then adaware will catch like 20+ (those being cookies and dataminers and what not)

MedHead

Check your msconfig for a .dll file having commands run upon it. You've received a trojan, probably from a pop-up ad. EzBoard had one such pop-up, so there's no telling where you got the trojan.

Coby

Yeah, like said above: Go to start -> run and type msconfig, then go to start up (or start, dunno what's it in english win) but don't touch anything else <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo--> Then behold all the programs that are started along the boot up, check all the programs if you recognize them. if there's something like "gator" or "ztxmlxamlxa" then unselect it(/them) and hit OK, reboot. In case you did something wrong you can go back the same way and select it, hit OK and reboot. Hope that'll help any?

UnCritical

I recently had the same problem after doing a reformat and browsing the net for like 5 mins without my virus scanner/firewall installed (stupid, I know) and I managed to pick up a file called finddead.dll that ran itself at start up.
Neither Spybot or adaware got rid of it, and google couldn't find a thing about it.
I ended up simply deleteing the file that was in my 'programs' folder and it hasn't come back since.

Hit CTRL-ALT-Del and see if thers a process running of the same name.