MS Internet Explorer/XP gurus, please help!

[CanuckAmok]

Help, somehow I've picked up a program which keeps installing:

res://mshp.dll/index.html#22776

as my IE homepage.

I have run Norton Anti-virus, and Adaware 6 in hopes of making it stop, but no dice.

Can anyone help?!

[GAspnes]

1. try this

http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/r1072896391

[democracyindanger]

2. Try here

http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/n1072895498

"Hey, My homepage keeps changing to res://mshp.dll/index.html#22776 everytime I try checking it. I ran ad ware 6, and it deleted around 300 items but it still changes. What should I try now?"

Lots of subposts in the thread. Hope that helps.

[ironflange]

3. Try this

http://mozilla.org

[sybylla]

4. or try this

http://www.netscape.com

[tkmorris]

5. Browser Hijacker

This tool should fix that. CWShredder, available here: http://www.softpedia.com/public/cat/10/17/10-17-150.shtml

[LTR]

6. Sounds like a browser hijack

Check this out and bookmark:

http://217.115.153.73/parasite/

All you need to know about nasty hijackers.

AdAware and Norton will do nothing to remedy this. It's merely an obnoxious script that changes the 'HOSTS" file on your hard drive.

Also, ditch IE and get a decent browser, like Avant: http://www.avantbrowser.com

And stop looking at porn sites.

[tkmorris]

7. LOL@ the porn site thing

Too true.

All 5 of us here have our own computers and with 3 teenage girls we get lots of computer problems. I have found that most of our trouble comes from:

1)Doll-making sites. It's a girl thing I guess but give em paint shop and a template and they'll stay busy for hours. Unfortunately an inordinate number of those sites contain malicious code, and many have porn anime (Hentai) pop-ups. Bad news.

and 2) Song lyrics sites. Makes no sense to me but I have had two reformats occur after a simple Google search for lyrics.

Also be wary of Warez sites, emulator and game rom sites, and there are a couple of big survey sites with nasty spyware scripts as well, I forget which.

[CanuckAmok]

8. Hmm...

I use a lyrics database from Russia...I'm wondering if that's where I picked this up, since I don't use *this* computer for porn...

[LTR]

11. Doll-making sites

I just reloaded a system the other day for someone. She said her homepage was changed to some doll-making site, and assumed her daughter changed it.

I guess it's a hijacker.

Like I said, get rid of IE. Stupid browser hasn't been updated in over two years. Get Avant or Mozilla.

[ironflange]

10. Avant is nice, but it's still IE

Not sure it would fix that.

[LTR]

12. It's built on IE, true

But it is more functional and secure. And it is updated often.

The more current releases seem much more secure. And I tweaked the settings to avoid hajacking. Haven't run into many lately.

[ConcernedCanuk]

9. . It's a bit of reading, but I'd check this out b4 doing anything - -

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In reading some othe info, I noticed that the complaints were all a derivitave of " mshp.dll/index.html#22776" - but the number was not the same

seaching just " mshp.dll/index.html# "

came up with ONE result

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