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Old 2003-11-08, 09:01 PM   [Ignore Me] #1
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I got some kind of hellish spyware, help me if you can, I beg you.


I don't know what it is, or how to get rid of it Basically any time I type in a URL in the bottom status bar of IE6 it shows http://ehttp.cc/? infront of every URL typed. So www.blynk.net becomes http://ehttp.cc/?www.blynk.net. In addition, sometimes it wont load a website (That you know exists, something as common as www.shacknews.com) and it goes to a wierd serach engine type page. As if this wasn't frustrating enough, the browser lags horribly. If I try to highlight text or scroll down a webpage it takes forever to do so and gets semi-unresponsive.

If you have any idea what is wrong or what I can do to fix it, please help me, I will worship you as a God. Well, something like that anyway.

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Old 2003-11-08, 09:03 PM   [Ignore Me] #2
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Get spybot or adaware. Free downloads and they eliminate spyware. Then go into safe mode and delete all files that they could not delete. You should be fine then.
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Old 2003-11-08, 11:14 PM   [Ignore Me] #3
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I have adaware. I used it and it didn't fix the problem.
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Old 2003-11-09, 03:04 AM   [Ignore Me] #4
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Try SpyBot then. Search your computer files for any unusual folders that you swear weren't there the day before.
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Old 2003-11-09, 06:50 AM   [Ignore Me] #5
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SpyBot S&D>all spyware
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Old 2003-11-09, 07:46 AM   [Ignore Me] #6
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Old 2003-11-09, 12:52 PM   [Ignore Me] #7
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yeah i just boot up ion safemode and go into the task manager and terminate all the procceses that i don't know waht they do, then find the thing in MSconfig and turn it off, then go to the folder listed and delete it. bye bye spaysuff and things that i don't like, like the gain network adds that you get from installing Divx, it says you have to uninstal divx to do stopo them form coming but i did what i stated above and its gone, but i still have divx
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Old 2003-11-09, 02:09 PM   [Ignore Me] #8
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Make sure nothing has replaced your IEXPLORE.EXE with another copy as well. A lot of that crap is done by redirecting your shortcuts to IE to another copy of iexplore.exe somewhere which does various nasty things.
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Old 2003-11-09, 07:19 PM   [Ignore Me] #9
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I suppose I'll try SpyBot then. I already disable all background applications that I have not specifically set to run and have already made sure that something running in the background was the cause of this, and it's not.

EDIT* SpyBot worked. Thanks for the suggestion guys
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Old 2003-11-10, 10:12 AM   [Ignore Me] #10
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Where can I get spybot?
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Old 2003-11-10, 10:17 AM   [Ignore Me] #11
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Just google for it. Its the shiz.
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Old 2003-11-10, 03:17 PM   [Ignore Me] #12
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I grabbed it from download.com. Simply search for SpyBot it's first on the list.
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