My Dad's IE is hijacked, I tried adaware, s&d, MS, avast, panda, and Hijack this..

Nada, it keeps coming back, I wasted 4 hours today messing with it, and it still taunts me.. any ideas?

thanks

PS, I know most of you will say mozilla etc, I don't want to avoid the problem, I want to correct it.. thanks

 

have you check the processes in the task manager?

I run firefox so I dont have these problems (harmless harassment right there) but I know of most of them, but forget the exact names and ways to fix each.

Anyway, check your processes out. I usually copy and paste them into google and see what pops up. The ones that are spyware or adaware show up with a million results, one or two of which will solve your problem. If you were to search for say (9311 looks in processes tab) csrss.exe you might not get many results, which usually means its not talked about and usually not harmful (which csrss.exe isn't).

Good luck, if this is a brand spanking new virus then give it a weak and all will go bye bye.

Also, while this isn't really a virus, I recommend AVG anti virus (free) if he isn't already running anything. Make sure he gets the windows up dates (I assume this is XP) and try and tell him to switch to FireFox once the problem is fixed.

 

Tried it, nothing suspicious.. for what it's worth, I loaded Firefox for the night, I'll tackle it again over the weekend.

Thanks

 

That's what happened to my computer just before it fried itself. Some bugaboo came in as an auto .exe file and then it just started to overload itself to the point where you couldn't even get into the windows setup.

 

Why I love my Mac....

Go into Spybot S&D's prefs and have it run before Windows starts so It can kill off any self-replicating bugs you've picked up on the Net. See if that helps.

 

heh, tried that too, I finally gave up and wiped it.. I've never seen anything like it before.. these people should be strung up

 

Are you talking about the people who wrote Windows or the people who broke it completely?

 

They're all on my list!

 

 

I'll bet you got Shopping Assistant. A client of mine got it and I tried for 7 hours and ended up wiping the hard drive as well. I couldn't get the machine to run one of the steps on its compressed disk and the virus (188 copies in c:\windows) just kept coming back, even in safe mode. Tens of thousands of people have gotten it now.

Removal instructions. They take about two hours per pass:
http://www.short-media.com/forum/sho...d.php?p=172774