Dirtcrasher
09-20-2004, 10:11 AM
I recently bought the anti spyware and I bought the newest Norton copy yet I STILL have problems.
Spyware usually notifies me if software is being installed that I did not install. It asks me if I want to change my homepage or install a dialer and I click no and this has stopped most of the "software being installed without my knowing on web sites" problems.
Well, somehow the homepage got changed anyway and now it asks me every 2 minutes if I want to change it or keep it. And it just keeps asking and asking and asking. So it seems to me that "something" got installed on my PC without my knowing. And I cannot put it back to Yahoo as a homepage or it just changes back. Any idea how to find and eliminate this problem???
And even worse for todays fun, well somehow even as I tried to click "new thread" on 3WW it directs me to an "internet optimizor" or "coolsearch.biz" instead of going to the link I click on!!!!! It took my 7 tries to finally post this post and you guys are my only hope before a complete meltdown again.
I went to add remove programs and took out "internet optimizor" and shut down but although it is not on the list it still goes to that page.
They told me at BEST BUY that all I needed was antispyware and norton and nothing else but please will someone tell me what the hell I need to buy and install on this POS to stop these things from happening??
I do not believe this is a virus but rather software I don't want. How do I locate and destroy these files??
Spyware usually notifies me if software is being installed that I did not install. It asks me if I want to change my homepage or install a dialer and I click no and this has stopped most of the "software being installed without my knowing on web sites" problems.
Well, somehow the homepage got changed anyway and now it asks me every 2 minutes if I want to change it or keep it. And it just keeps asking and asking and asking. So it seems to me that "something" got installed on my PC without my knowing. And I cannot put it back to Yahoo as a homepage or it just changes back. Any idea how to find and eliminate this problem???
And even worse for todays fun, well somehow even as I tried to click "new thread" on 3WW it directs me to an "internet optimizor" or "coolsearch.biz" instead of going to the link I click on!!!!! It took my 7 tries to finally post this post and you guys are my only hope before a complete meltdown again.
I went to add remove programs and took out "internet optimizor" and shut down but although it is not on the list it still goes to that page.
They told me at BEST BUY that all I needed was antispyware and norton and nothing else but please will someone tell me what the hell I need to buy and install on this POS to stop these things from happening??
I do not believe this is a virus but rather software I don't want. How do I locate and destroy these files??