hello , I have an older computer and a while back one of those pop up ads came up and took my computer over , after that it set my home page to a page selling viagra and other items I have no interest in at all , I can go to the control panel and manually change the home page but soon as I go offline and come back on it changes it back to the viagra ??? how can I fix this , please help ,,, thank's in advance

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Hey Z28man,
I'm no expert but it sounds like you got hit with a virus.
Same thing happened to me a couple of years ago but my virus software caught it. I did have to go back and reconfigure my homepage settings under options on Internet Explorer if I recall correctly.
Read this - it's one, I'm sure there are many others.
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/vbs.dayumi.html
Is your virus software current? Do you update it often? I see new virus definitions coming out almost every two days. My system does virus updates automatically now when I log on the internet AND I still go on and check manually every couple of days by habit. It's the best protection you can have for known viruses and it will catch that kind of stuff.

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
Download and run AdAware also along with SPyBot. They'll both catch different things.

Check out this site.... it's got everything in one place for you plus a Stinger which checks for virus's that screw up your anti-virus software.
http://asknick.com/tango.php

thank's guy's I can't wait to get home tonight to try it , I will let you know how it work's thank's again

WOW!!!! spy bot went straight to my computer's problem's and fixed (DELETED) all , it was not a virus it was adware ?? anyway it's working great now thank's