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msblank ie hijacker

Started by radds3 , Dec 21 2005 06:39 AM

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radds3

Posted 21 December 2005 - 06:39 AM

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My mother in law recently bought a new computer and upgraded her internet connection to DSL. After a weekend session by her grandson she now has pharmacy, dating, xxx and other links on her desktop. Also when opening IE her homepage is now showing a msblank address that cannot be changed. Needless to say this directs you to different teenage [bleep] sites. Anyway she is very upset about this and I am trying to help her resolve the problems. Ran Adaware SE and found approximately 9 critical issues which were removed. Also ran her Bellsouth antivirus but it detected nothing. She has the Windows XP security running the firewall and automatic updates and I think SP2 is installed.Have seen removal tools on the internet which guarantee msblank removal for about $30.00. Are these removal tools worth the money? Can they really remove msblank simply or will I be wasting time and money and not completely remove this hijacker. AdwareAway and XoftSpy are a couple. Thanks in advance for any help.