!!!!!! Site Website in Explorer

Sir_Peter

Help me please....

When ever I search or use the web in explorer and click a hyerlink I get this website coming up instead of the site I am going to. It says that I am about to enter an Adult site.... Hoe do I get this off my system, I can not use the web wiht this on... I have Norton Antivirus and have scanned the computer but it still pops up...

Even when I click Submit New Thread on this page the next thing I will get will be this Adult Site...

Help me

albertross_2

It sounds like a browser hijack/browser helper object.

Do you have any antispyware software on the PC?

Suggest you have a cleanup with this: https://www.ccleaner.com

then try ad-aware or microsoft defender and do a scan.

http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx

http://safety.live.com/site/en-US/default.htm

or download hijackthis, and post the log it creates here and click analyze, look for BHO's

http://www.hijackthis.de/

loads more info here:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=133269

also, make sure the PC is upto date with windows patches.

https://www.windowsupdate.com

Astaroth

I would also make sure what settings you have on your content advisor... I assume you are going to the site you want to you are just getting a warning (rather than being redirect to a !!!!!! site or such?)

Many sites dont have a content rating and therefore can be classed as "adult" if you have the browser set up to do such.

madauri

yeah, check too that your home page settings have not been changed (go to tools/internet options to check).

andy74656

I also recomend you do not use Internet Explorer, for a free better (in my opinion) browser try Firefox.

http://www.getfirefox.com/

It is more secure as it is not integrated directly into Windows as is Internet Explorer. It also features tabbed browsing and a popup blocker, is is also not as suseptible to adware like Internet Explorer.

Andy

Quincy_3

andy74656 wrote:

I also recomend you do not use Internet Explorer, for a free better (in my opinion) browser try Firefox.

http://www.getfirefox.com/

It is more secure as it is not integrated directly into Windows as is Internet Explorer. It also features tabbed browsing and a popup blocker, is is also not as suseptible to adware like Internet Explorer.

Andy

Thats not 100% true at all, IE is not better or worse than any other browser Its just that more people target IE also changing browsers does not solve the problem as if you cant view the page in Fire Fox properly youll need the IE plug in and that will result in what the OP is trying to get rid off.


Now if Sir Peter downloads and runs Windows Defender that may well cure his problem as it has the ability to reset Homepages and get rid of certain maliciouse software.

Worth a shot.

Browntoa

that malware removal thread will do it, takes a little time to work through but worth it in the end

andy74656

Quincy wrote:

Thats not 100% true at all, IE is not better or worse than any other browser Its just that more people target IE also changing browsers does not solve the problem as if you cant view the page in Fire Fox properly youll need the IE plug in and that will result in what the OP is trying to get rid off.


Now if Sir Peter downloads and runs Windows Defender that may well cure his problem as it has the ability to reset Homepages and get rid of certain maliciouse software.

Worth a shot.

I did say in my opinion!

Also there are not many websites now that do not support other browsers. Even the National Lottery website now supports Firefox and Opera.

Windows Defender is ok, although they are going to charge you for it when it comes out of Beta. (Charge you for stopping spyware and virus that get on your system thru their security errors and bugs, i like that).

TBH, i don't use Windows anymore, i switched to a Mac about month ago, but i would recommend Windows Defender while its in beta for free).

Moneymaker

I also recommend switching to a Mac if you want to get rid of such problems!