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Old September 14th, 2008, 04:22 PM   Digg it!   #1 (permalink)
stuleg
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Homepage Hijack

It feels cheeky registering here just to try to get my problem sorted out, so I apologise for that. Hopefully I can become a more giving member in time.

My problem is that my homepage keeps being hijacked.
I have it set to google.co.uk - but after a restart or after running ccleaner it goes to a site called lookanddiscover.com.

I go into Control Panel/Internet Options and change it back but it just goes back to lookanddiscover.com after a restart.

So far I have run - Spybot S&D, Lavasoft Ad-Aware, Trojan Hunter and Trojan Remover. As well as a full scan with fully updated versions of both AVG and Avast.

Any help would be gratefully recieved, and thankyou to anyone in advance for any time they spend trying to help me.

Stuart

*edit* just to add that I installed an app called Startpage Guard yesterday to try and stop the page from being hijacked, even that doesn't seem to work after a reboot.

Last edited by stuleg : September 14th, 2008 at 04:27 PM.
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