[z28man]

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

[Brian Lewis]

You need Spybot S&D which is FREE!!

http://www.safer-networking.org/

Download it, install it, use the update feature to get the latest updates, then have it scan and fix your system.

[drew69]

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...bs.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.

[HwyStarJoe]

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

[z28man]

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

[z28man]

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