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tdtman
01-13-2004, 09:47 PM
Hello users, I have an issue relating to the IE homepage address bar under "tools/internet options/general"; it uses three different site addresses that I don't know about, and I can try to change it but once I restart my PC and open IE, those websites come back. I uses Spybot v1.2 to view my system configurations, and according to sbybot, those sites are from http://81.211.105.9 (dns name: http://wetsearch.ws/", http://searchclub.ws/, and http://cool-search.ws/). Also according to spybot no registry tools were changed. I visited the website and discovered that they offer a program, "cleaner.exe" in the contact us hyperlink, but what's weird is that there is no email address. So I seriously think that it is a bad idea to install any program that they are offering considering the fact that they somehow put unwanted files in my system in the first place (possibly virus but no other problems yet). Anyways does anyone know of how I can resolve this problem? thanks a bunch.