My father in law's computer is stuck on www .awesomehomepage. com as his home page. I have gone through and tried to disable it but it doesn't work. Keeps popping up. Went to Tools->Options->change home page but it isn't working.
Sounds like a virus that has some sort of browser add-on in it. I'd advise you do a virus scan and use something like HijackThis (The Link) to try to get rid of it. You should probably get rid of the link to the page in your post and title cause chances are it leads to an infected page. Finally, you'll want this.
he has spyware on his computer. try installing: (1) spybot (free) (2) lavasoft's ad-aware (free) maybe they will succeed in removing it. maybe they won't. if not, you are screwed -- you might even have to reformat and start over. to prevent this from happening again: (1) install spybot, ad-aware, and an anti-virus on a new computer (2) install zone alarm firewall (free) (3) use FIREFOX. refrain from using IE. (4) don't click on anything or any offers for exciting mouse cursors, wall papers, weather, porn, etc. Download software only from a reliable vendor (5) Before installing any software, google for "[software name] spyware" -- look at the results, if people are complaining about spyware. it probably is. make sure your FIL knows of these steps.
dang... I almost clicked on the link before reading it... you might want to disable it or someone's gonna click and get the virus...
I use firefox. We downloaded firefox and ad-aware last night (before people started posting). We ran ad-aware but I had to leave before it completed. I'll ask him if it worked. I told him to start using firefox but I hope it worked. We also ran Norton (which he has).
I use firefox. We downloaded firefox and ad-aware last night (before people started posting). We ran ad-aware but I had to leave before it completed. I'll ask him if it worked. I told him to start using firefox but I hope it worked. We also ran Norton (which he has). I'll tell him to also dl hijack this. Thanks.
If you aren't computer savvy, hijack this is probably not something you want to use. If you don't know what you are looking for, you won't have much success in cleaning out your registry and you could make things worse.
A combination of Ad-Aware and the virus scan on the Yahoo toolbar for Firefox works really well... first, run Ad-Aware on a full system scan... then, open firefox and run the yahoo toolbar virus scan... this combination got rid of some crazy trojan that nothing else took off... I used AVG for a long time and worked great... I now have Kaspersky and it works much better and uses next to no resources...
