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Old 07-21-08, 07:36 PM   #3
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On my old computer, something has messed with Explorer. When I go to log on the internet, some program hijacks it at says I need to download their program . The virus scans don't pick anything up (I have norton) but it stops it from installing when you click on the window pop-up. The spyware programs also say everything is okay. Firefox runs, so I've re-downloaded IE7 and the security updates. But they didn't seem to help. Any ideas on how to find this program and kill it?
Run AdAware from Lavasoft. It should clean out 99% of everything, and then run Spybot after it since one will pick up what the other misses.

http://lavasoft.com/

http://www.safer-networking.org/index2.html

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I have adaware, but something was blocking it from updating . I've got it updating and re-running scan. I re-installed IE7, it runs the first time but the second time it runs, it brings up the critical error window, please download the program. I'm making progress, I think...
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