Repairing Hijacked Home Page
Nov 26, 2004
Last week, my home page was hijacked by spyware (I think), it was actually 2 pages in length, the bottom of first page was a note "Removal instructions". I have windows XP SP2.I was able to go into the registry, with the help of another forum, and delete the offending file. Now my home page is white with my general icons, (I used to have the pretty beach picture of windows XP). I can't seem to restore the picture.I have also discovered the same file in "my computer" in system 32. When I press delete the icon disappears for about 3 seconds and then returns. The files name is "Twain Tech" and in system 32 as "Twunk 16" and "Twunk 32"
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Dec 24, 2007
Home page keeps going to about blank.computer slow to respond
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Aug 19, 2009
I was trying to repair my desktop Windows XP Home installation.I have the original restore cds, but did not want to do a clean sweep, so I got hold of an XP Home cd, did all the repairing and copying of files, entered the key on the COA attached to my desktop, and all the process was fine. At the end, it asked me to activate the copy of windows, which I accepted because my key on the COA is all "clean". However, the process does not go anywhere, it only takes me to the desktop, which is blank and has nothing, not even the taskbar visible. The computer freezes.I have repaired other desktops and laptops I have at home before, and the process worked no problem, so I don't know what i did wrong this time.
Before I did the repairing on this desktop, I had disabled my ethernet adapter because I was connecting to the internet via wireless. So I'm thinking the problem is that the wireless card drivers got deleted, and the system cannot enable the ethernet adapter to connect to the internet to activate windows. First question is: Is this the case? Please help.I am not sure if the XP cd I got is an OEM version, or full retail. Second question: Could this be the problem? Finally, I was thinking of connecting an older hard disk that has a working copy of windows on it to my desktop (instead of the one I "repaired"), boot from it, and then activate the ethernet adapter, so I can then plug the original hard disk and hope the activation process to work.
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Apr 29, 2007
I'm trying to run the xp disc to repair some reg, file assoc files. Does anyone know a step by step on how to preform this?
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Jan 19, 2006
i have a dell dimension 2400 - running XP Home, which was infected with numerous viruses and spyware - these were cleared - though due to its very nature a number of os files were removed/deleted. I then decided to run a repair of windows XP home to reinstall these files. However, on numerous attempts, the repair gets through to the Preperation Phase ok, and then gets stuck at the "installing Windows" phase, with 33 minutes to go - with the "installing Devices" box at around 80% bar completed.Has anyone any ideas what to do and fix this - apart from a clean install of course!
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Jan 15, 2007
My wife bought me an Acer pc pentium 4 etc etc running Win xp home.I am trying to repair this O/S but in real terms I would like to use XP pro 2nd ed. again! When I got the machine it had Windows pre installed and now I have a few probs I really would like to either repair the O/S thats here or better still Format and install XP Pro ! Other alternative is to put XP pro on another drive ....The system came with 80gb split into two and I have also an exterior H/D which is 250gb could I do this/
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Oct 13, 2008
The picture i`ve included shows an orange edge on the sides. Is this normal or can it be changed?http://img378.imageshack.us/my.php?i...eensizeik0.jpg
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Sep 11, 2005
when I connect to the internet (dial up), my home page doesn't come up, instead I get a "page cannot be displayed. If I right click on my ISP provider and click "open home page" then it will come up. I've tried various "solutions" yet still have problem. Even when the home page is up, the other is lurking behind it.
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Oct 31, 2006
I am using a computer with Win98se on it, but have been given one with XP Home loaded on it,which is a new "learning curve" for me. I like Excite as my home page,but am having trouble loading it on the XP machine. I have checked these forums and Googled it, but can't seem to find an answer to my particular problem. When I attempt to load Excite,all I get is a blank page with a left and right arrow and pause button in the middle left of the page. The address is correct on the address line.
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Aug 29, 2007
I've IE7 on winXP Pro SP2,for some reason my home page keep changing.I did full scan with NAV and some other spyware software, but still that problem exist.
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Nov 14, 2006
I am currently running AVG Scan.. If the problem is not fixed, then I will try the "hijackthis" solution and I will post the log.
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Jan 4, 2005
I can't change home page from about:blank, popups, won't accept a webpage in IE unless I type full www.yahoo.com, usually accepts yahoo.com.
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Dec 6, 2004
Help Some program or something keeps changing my home page t.swapx and win-eto.com. It is doing it at the registry level, and I have virus scaned and spyware scaned with spyware stormer.but nothing seems to be working.
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Aug 27, 2007
How do I change my home page?
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Jun 11, 2008
Due to a Malware problem,I lost my Yahoo Home page.I now have a Blue screen with a yellow box.How can I get my home page back to where it was?Not able to do a system restore. Win XP
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May 26, 2008
I find the homepage for Firefox seems to take a long time to load - does anyone else have this problem and is there a tweak. Or is it me just being impatient?
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Jun 19, 2006
i had to reformat and install all new xp home every things working except i cant set home page to what i want.
sp2 all security updates virus free and spayware free
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Jul 14, 2006
I did a RESTORATION of my computer resently. Now the Home Page is LOCKED.No matter what I type in...that is what opens in IE. Even Blank Page does not work.I have an HP a600n with Windows XP SP2. Any help will be appreciated on getting AOL off my Home Page.
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Jun 30, 2005
I have had weatherbug for years and thought it was a good program.Today weather bug wanted to me to click on an 'update'. Zone alarm asked and I accepted.When I did all Weather bug added them selves to my address bar (at the top along with back, stop, refresh, home, etc.putting 2 icons that were not there before, their icon along with another showing what the weather was. Also weatherbug put in a 'search bar'like yahoo has.I certainly did not ask for this.My links bar disappeared. The links that were showing on the bar below the address were now listed on the right side as links, which I had to click on to get the list of what was originally showing.I am using XP.I could not get the link bar back, I didn't know how, so I used the restore point from yesterday.Now my home page looks like it should.Actually my question is, I am really irritated with Weatherbug, I don;t like that they just took over my home page and changed it.I am thinking
of deleting the program and using another weather program. What weather program would you suggest in place of Weather bug?
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Jan 18, 2005
I am having a problem whereby my IE keeps setting the default home page to www.searchdom.com, i can see this in the log, can someone give me some guidance on what to do / delete.
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Dec 5, 2006
How would I set the home page for all users on XP when using roaming profiles? I would like to just set the home page locally for all users on that computer.
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Aug 2, 2009
When i open Firefox 3.0.12 my default browser, even though i`ve got "always show my home page when Firefox starts", set in tools/options/main, too frequently i get a blank page, no home page, and the area just above google is also blank.(see attachment).
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Sep 20, 2007
Some how last night while browsing around some Trojan or spyware got into my system.
I was able to eliminate it using both McAfee and SpywareBot. Though I noticed that I am no longer able to apply a desktop wall paper.
Every time I try I get a prompt that states: Can not find file ///F:/WINDOWS/privacy_danger/index.htm. Make sure the path or internet address incorrect.
What would I need to do in order to correct this "error" if that is even possible?
Secondly when all of this occurred it changed the home page I had set in IE to the following: http://ucleaner.com/main.php?wmid=60...o4OQ==&lndid=2
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Dec 15, 2005
I am having concern spyaxe and seems to be going around a bit. I have tried to trouble shoot it myself but im just getting different error messages popping up and my home page has been hijacked.
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Feb 27, 2006
iv got msn explorer as my home page but its the usa version how do i chage it to the uk site cheers x
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Mar 3, 2007
My situation is this, my computer cannot conect to the update of Antivir, My Internet Explorer its been acting very funny, sometimes I cannot make my favorites to appear, and the shorcut of a link of Internet of Sympatico MSN, canot be displayed, I reall.y need some help here , somtimes I get like a flash on the cornerup right of my monitor, when I turn off a page of Internet Explorer.
I cant make with double click , of the mouse appear even a notepad in my desktop !!
I been Hijacked !!?? someone is in my computer? from far?
My roomate downlad a patch for a game, today when I return from classes , she told me that teh computer start acting pretty badly, I realy dont know how long, Im gonna be able to control mu computer, I check first my computer and its was a Trojan URL blank.
So I perform teh remove Instructions for teh reg. infected, but this time its been far from my knowledge of Fix. I can post a hijack if required , righ tnow I scaning with antivir removal tool 3.0 but I dont know it, going to work .
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Dec 22, 2005
I run xp sp2 IE6 Comcast BB.I had this happen before and I don't remember how I fixed it, I may have gotten completely rid of Real. But this is a new day maybe a year or so later, NOW I do have Real Arcade again and the puky Realplayer and now again on my Comcast homepage in the lower left corner I am getting that little yellow warning Icon. Wehen I double click it I am told my page may not be dislaying right, and then when I go get details its obviously tied up with RealMedia ads and maybe Symantec ?? heres what the details say: Line 48 Char 3 Error 'SymRealWinOpen" is undefined Code: 0 then this which takes me nowhere: url:http://oascentral.comcast.net/REalMe. the numbers in the long url are always different but everything around them is exactly the same.
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Dec 24, 2008
I did a system restore and now I cannot get my home page to open on either the keyboard or from the IE When I open the Home it goes to AOL The home page keeps going to redirect.I have tryied restting every way I know how but still no home page.I am new to all this so any help would be great.
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Oct 26, 2004
1. Create a shortcut to the Internet Explorer executable and place it on the desktop or quick launch area.
2. Right click the shortcut and select Properties.
3. Change the "target" value to "C:Program FilesInternet ExplorerIEXPLORE.EXE" -nohome
Substitute C: for the drive letter Program Files is present on.Originally posted by simonize
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Oct 23, 2006
Every time i load my IE up it changes my home page from yahoo to: http://safeiepage.com/. I have been hit with a dose of something bad on my pc. I know McAfee keeps telling me i need to uninstall some Generic PUP.c but i dont know how to do that! ive used ad-aware,mcafee vs,windows defender,cwshredder,and spysweeper, and nothing is helping.
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Oct 16, 2008
Change the email address on my home page and I do not know enough html or FTP to change it to my new email address. Some one else made the home page for me but they are no longer available.
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