IE:Problem with opening page

[harmads]

Hi all.. will appreciate comments on the following problem

Whenever I click on IE.. "www.serchforfree.info" comes as the opening page. I go to options and change my opeing page to something else but next time when I log on to IE I see the same "www.searchforfree.info" It has became most irritating.

Will appreciate help on this.Thanks in advance

[icecoolz]

dude...wrong section!!! come on man use ur common sense. Did you not see the Q & A section below this ??? Post it there !!!

Secondly you have spyware on your system. Download Adaware and run it do a complete system scan. It should get rid of your problems.

And please post it in the right sections!!!

[anandk]

your browser has been hijacked.
run ms anti-spy, adaware or spybot.
open your ie>intenet options>homepage>change to about:blank
lock your home page, using one of the above anti-spys.

[Nimda]

A case of browser hijacking. Download Hijackthis from here and click on "Do a system scan and save a logfile". Now in the notepad window that opens, copy its entire contents and paste it here (as a post in this thread).

We'll try to provide the solution based on the problems we find in the log file.

[harmads]

Thankyou icecoolz,anandk,nimda for your inputs. I am getting the idea.

I have downloaded AdAware from the net. Will this suffice. It seems being a free version it does not have all features. Can you comment on this.

anandk can you tell how to Lock the home page



Thanks again

[anomit]

Well, use SpyBot or MS AntiSpyware or StartPage Guard to lock ur home page and search page. Personally I dont recommend StartPage Guard. It would give headaches to novices. MS Antispyware is recommended for browser locking. And for better, change to FireFox.