Website taken over homepage

[crdurham]

There is a website that keeps taking over my home page...every time you turn the computer off and turn it back on...there is is...there is another one that keeps popping up in favorites and I delete it every time. I have did a search but can't find them in the harddrive and Norton says there is no virus...

Oh Gabe how, oh how do I get rid of this crap??

[MJsLady]

try runing adaware or spybot
We had that happen a couple times one was virus the other was spyware

[Guest1]

You could also try going to start, then control panel, then internet options....under the "general" tab see what it lists as your homepage...we had some "win a cruise" ad that seemed to have taken over ours as well - apparently the original pop-up had somehow taken over! Change it to your homepage of choice....

I also have AdAware - perhaps I had gotten rid of the original bug but it didn't release my homepage.....who knows!
It certainly is frustrating though!!

[crdurham]

thanks for the advice.... I always change and then delete it out of favorites (it always pops up there to) but when I turn the computer off and back on its there again...

I rean spybot and it found it and said it corrected it but its still there when I turn the puter back on....uuuggghhh....

Adware finds it but you have to pay to remove it....soooo I will try something else...

thaks for the advice ladies!!

[Guest1]

no sweetie - AdAware is free as long it's for personal use....

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/


I could walk you through deleting your processes - I've run in to that problem before as well, but it gets a little confusing - I could call you & walk you through that one if you'd like.....