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AMD Athlon.
08-19-04, 05:39 PM
Hello.
This is the first time I am using this site, so I`ll be short.
I have this problem, becouse I am using both Opera and Explorer, and some pages I am visiting with Opera has seemd to hijacked the Explorer, so it has been locked on a page. (I think the site`s name was "MySearchWeb").
But, unfoutuantly, I have scanned the whole PC with Northon, AVG 7.0, Adaweare 6.181 and Spyweare S&D, but it dosent seem to work. And sometimes the internett shuts itself off, but that happends just when I am surfing with Opera (it fixes itself when I restart the PC).
So, I wounder, is it possible to fix this, and how did this happend when I am using Northon Online-security all the time, and the internett is set on "Moderat alert"?.

PS: Thanks for an really good page.
speedy11309
08-19-04, 06:46 PM
i think you are referring to MyCoolWebSearch. thats a big problem. have you downloaded Adaware SE build 1.02 yet? if you havnt d/l that then run it, see if that fixes it.
gokusimpson
08-19-04, 07:56 PM
Personally, I don't like Norton. IE's "moderate alert" thingy doesn't work all too well. Get all the latest updates from lavasoft and such and you should be good to go.
Doc Timbo
08-22-04, 07:45 PM
get hijackthis to sort out problems with browser hijacking. Instructions are everywhere on the net :-)
Yanyan
09-10-04, 09:35 PM
I had the same problem as the first guy, and I had to remove the offending values manually via regedit. Everything is fine now except for one thing. When I type in an address into my IE explorer bar, I just get the message

"Cannot find [address]. Make sure the path or Internet Address is correct."

And that happens even if I type in the correct name of this website: pcstats.com. Does anyone out there happen to know what else is wrong with my browser, and how to correct it so I don't have to surf using this work-around I've discovered?
Geedy01
09-11-04, 12:55 PM
try this site out http://www.trendmicro.com/en/home/us/enterprise.htm

i had this problem your having on my old computer. I never did fix it. But i would run adaware and it would consistantly find browser highjacks and stuff. It would never totally fix it though. Then i would change my browser to what i want and then the search thing would switch itself back on. I've heard that this is a register thing like mentiond. You'll have to go into registery to fix this. I'm pretty shur that trend micro has directions on doing this. check it out