homepage hijack

[nicnic]

A friend of mine is having a major computer problem. Despite antivirus and 'homepage protection' from Norton, somehow when his homepage comes up he is now getting 'explicit material'. Whenever he changes it, it reverts back to this. He managed to fix the problem last night but on restarting his computer today it has occurred again. Any ideas before he explodes or throws the computer out of the window!?

[BillyNoMates]

Do a search for a free utility called HijackThis - download it and run it with the option to create a logfile.

Then paste the output from the logfile to www.hijackthis.de

It will analyse the output for you and suggest suspect items.

If you are unsure of whether to delete something be careful - post back here.

[Confab]

Try this in safe mode if possible

http://www.intermute.com/spysubtract/cwshredde r_download.html

[fiesata]

These are Internet Explorer exploits you will have solved your problem by switching to a better more secure browser
I use Mozilla Firefox browser for best browsing experience and safety online it ids years ahead if Internet Explorer 7 do a Google search and read the reviews you'll never look back!!
No more pop ups or homepage hijacking !!

[oligopoly]

is he the only user of the computer?!

[Carby]

Get rid of Norton it's an awful anti virus program. Use AVG or AntiVir