Advertisements have taken over my home page.

[deanderose]

I have a google sight as my home page for every time Explorer opens. All of a sudden, now when I go to open my home page, my homepage comes up for a second and then automtically goes to an advertisement for an anti virus program. In my Control Panel my home page is still listed as normal.

Now I have blinking icons on my task bar, when I click them on they go right to these anti virus sites automatically. It is as if someone got into my computer and has switched it, but I cannot switch it back.

I tried going into Contol Panel to remove these, but I do not see any programs with there names on it. One icon takes me to a Spylocked site.

How can I fix this?

[phkninja]

use an anti-malware program like spybot search & destroy. This problem usually occurs with spyware installed on your machine

[Jeremy]

In addition to using Spybot after you update it, use Ad-Aware SE or the 2007 Beta 4. It sounds like you have a browser hijacker. You probably got suckered into clicking a flashing bouncing box that told you something was wrong with your PC. In any case, I suggest you also download a trial of Kaspersky Anti-Virus, update it and do a full system scan for malware. If you're using IE, I'd advise you to turn off ActiveX and any scripting options, or use Firefox or Opera.

[Tarun]

You can read our sticky topic Introduction to Anti-Malware and Cleaning.

Use Ad-Aware, Spybot, SpywareBlaster, avast and a few other items that can be found in my Anti-Malware package (Pro recommended).

[ Moved to Malware Prevention and Security ]

[yahamar6]

get kaspersky... get webroot spysweeper. and next time dont use IE. scan w/ webroot in safemode. and u should be good to go...