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browser hijacked

Hi

My daughter downloaded winamp and since then i have found that both FF and IE browsers have homepages set to "english.ircfast2.com"

I have no idea how to get rid, have tried loads of scans-kaspersky (which is the program i have running), spybot, ad-aware + more.

Looking for some help please as to what i can do.

Thanks

Comments

  • superscaper
    superscaper Posts: 13,369 Forumite
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    Have you actually tried manually setting the homepage in the options back to what it was?
    "She is quite the oddball. Did you notice how she didn't even get excited when she saw this original ZX-81?"
    Moss
  • lfc4eva
    lfc4eva Posts: 1,638 Forumite
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    Have you actually tried manually setting the homepage in the options back to what it was?

    :o:o:o..........ok, ive slapped my own face :o:o:o

    Thank you v much
  • superscaper
    superscaper Posts: 13,369 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    lfc4eva wrote: »
    :o:o:o..........ok, ive slapped my own face :o:o:o

    Thank you v much

    Don't worry, we can all overlook the basic/simplest things first and dive straight into the more complex solutions. I'm just glad that the simplest solution actually worked, otherwise it'd be a bit of a headache getting rid of something really hijacking your browser.
    "She is quite the oddball. Did you notice how she didn't even get excited when she saw this original ZX-81?"
    Moss
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