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Old February 19th, 2008, 11:57 AM   Digg it!   #1 (permalink)
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Startup Problem

So I have the following running on my pc;
Nod32 anti-virus
Spybot
Ad-Aware
Windows Defender
Tuneup Utilities

(note all of these are UP TO DATE with definition files)

This problem started about 4days ago when Yahoo.com asked me to allow a popup. Now everything went haywire.

Problem 1 is that my browser IE6 changes a bookmark by itself to www.microsoft something... no matter how much I change it back it changes itself.

Problem 2 is that something is removing all the programs listed on top from my START UP. So now I have to manually start them up. No matter how many times I try put them back by the time I reboot.... they all gone again.

1) I ran a scan using all of the above. it fixed my IE6 explorer, but still the startup thing is messed up. I was told to start in safe mode and check all again. NO virusus; malware nothing was found.

Please help fix my start up.
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Win XP service pack 2
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Old February 19th, 2008, 12:06 PM     #2 (permalink)
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Check out HijackThis and see if it reports anything. I appears this is maleware, the last thread looked like you were concerned about ads and spyware.
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I downloaded HijackThis but was told I can't just remove anything... do i just say scan... then clean?
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