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    Post How to remove Hijacker

    A Hijacker is any software that resets your browser's settings to point to other sites. Hijacks may reroute your info and address requests through an unseen site, capturing that info. In such hijacks, your browser may behave normally, but be slower. Search Hijackers change your search settings. Homepage Hijackers will change your home page to some other site. Error Hijackers will display a new error page when a requested URL is not found. Hijacking has become very common, as these guide illustrate. This guide explains how to clear such hijacks of Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) manually and how to prevent it by disabling scripting.

    Search Hijacks
    If your Search capability has been hijacked, your use of IE's Search Button (see below) will lead to unexpected (and usually unwanted) results.
    What the hijacker has done is to change four registry keys:
    1. In the Root key HKEY_CURRENT_USER, the key Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main has a value "Search Page" that has likely been reset to something like "http://www.secret-crush.com/search/search.php"
    2. The value "Search Bar" in this key has also likely been reset to something.
    3. In the Root key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, the key Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search has a value "SearchAssistant" that has likely been reset to something
    4. The value "CustomizeSearch" in this key has also likely been reset to something.


    Fixing this is simple. From IE's top menu bar, select the Tools menu. On this menu, choose "Internet Options". It will display a popup dialog box. Click on the Programs tab, to see a display like that on the right.

    Find the button near the bottom labeled "Reset Web Settings". Give it a click, and these four registry settings will be corrected.
    Last edited by devilish; 21-09-2005 at 09:11 PM.

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    HomePage Hijacks - How to remove Hijacker

    If your Home page changes unexpectedly, you have a "HomePage hijack", and will see this page each time you invoke your browser. What the hijacker has done is to change the registry key:

    * In the Root key HKEY_CURRENT_USER, the key Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main has a value "Start Page" that has likely been reset to something.
    * In the Root key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, the key Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main has a value "Start Page" that has likely been reset to something like http://yourbookmarks.ws/
    Fixing this seems simple, but some pests make repair a bit more difficult. For instance, CWS.Bootconf sets the first of these entries to http://%77%77%77%2e%63%6f%6f%6c%77%77%77%73%65%61%72%63 %68%2e%63%6f%6d/%7a/%61/%78%31%2e%63%67%69?%36%35%36%33%38%37 This is "encrypted"; its decryption works out to http://www.searchv.com/

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    cool Disabling Scripting: How to remove Hijacker

    IE supports "scripting", a useful but dangerous capability that you will want to disable if you ever visit unknown sites. The scripts that can be run will be Javascript or VBScript, often embedded in a web page you visit. Such scripts can execute ActiveX controls, which can do anything in your machine that any software can do.

    To be stop scripting the easy way, do this: From IE's top menu bar, select the Tools menu. On this menu, choose "Internet Options". It will display a popup dialog box. Click on the Security tab, to see a display like that to the right.

    Each zone has four security levels available, ranging from Low Security to High. IE is configured for Low Security when it is first installed. Medium or High is what you need.

    * High (most secure) Exclude content that could damage your computer.
    * Medium (more secure) Warn before running potentially damaging content.
    * Medium-Low (Same as Medium) No warning before running potentially damaging content.
    * Low Minimal safeguard and warning before running potentially damaging content.


    For the Internet Setting, move the slider to "Medium" This will ensure that you are prompted before signed ActiveX controls are run, and unsigned ActiveX controls will not run.

    But it will still allow active scripting. So click on the "Custom Level" button, and follow these instructions:

    Configure IE so that it does not run Active scripts automatically:
    * On the Tools menu, click Internet Options, click the Security tab, click the Internet Web content zone, and then click Custom Level.
    * In the Settings box, scroll down to the Scripting section, and click Disable under Active scripting and Scripting of Java applets.
    * Click OK, and then click OK again.
    Configure IE so that it does not automatically use items that show active content, such as vertical marquees or animations:
    * On the Tools menu, click Internet Options, click the Security tab, click the Internet Web content zone, and then click Custom Level.
    * In the Settings box, click Disable under Download signed ActiveX controls, Download unsigned ActiveX controls, Initialize and script ActiveX controls not marked as safe, Run ActiveX controls and plugins, and Script ActiveX controls marked safe for scripting.
    * Click OK, and then click OK again.
    Verify that IE's internal Java Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler is disabled:

    * On the Tools menu, click Internet Options, click the Advanced tab, and then click to clear the JIT compiler for virtual machine enabled (requires restart) check box under Java VM.
    * Click OK.
    Configure IE so that it does not run Java programs automatically.

    * On the Tools menu, click Internet Options, click the Security tab, click the Internet Web content zone, and then click Custom Level.
    * In the Settings box, click Disable Java under Java Permissions, click OK and then click OK again.
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    Re: How to remove Hijacker

    well i guess i know whats the prob.

    since i upgraded to ZA sec suite 6.67.00, its installation crashes due to some dll lib problem

    see http://forum.zonelabs.org/zonelabs/b...ssage.id=40246

    now im reinstalling the previous version 6.66. which worked fine 1 whole month since download only gave probs recently when it connected to dataone but no data transfer.

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    where did u get all this guide... awesome man

    nice information

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    Re: How to remove Hijacker

    Yeah Thanks Pal...it Is A Good One

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    Re: How to remove Hijacker

    thanks for this wonderful guide
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    Re: How to remove Hijacker

    Thats A Great Guide
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    Re: How to remove Hijacker

    Thats A Good Post Mate
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    Hi,

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    Re: How to remove Hijacker

    What if the Hijacker has attached it self to a specific account, not I.E. but like a yhaoo or google account? How can that be fixed?

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