intrusive web downlods - virus or spam?

[frost]

I have some problem with my computer after I visited a website <snip>. It overrides my homepage and did something in the Internet Option that wouldn't allow me to reset my homepage to what it was. It will go to this page whenever I restart the computer... What's worse is that it won't even let me run "regedit" to clean up the files, saying this function is admin-restricted. But this is my personal computer and I have just used regedit two weeks ago to clean up similar junks.

Can anyone help me with this? I have some important files need to be backed up and can't afford to re-format the computer right now.

Many thanks in advance,
Frost

[edited by: engine at 7:02 pm (utc) on Feb. 2, 2004]
[edit reason] url removed [/edit]

[Dreamquick]

It could be one of two things;

May just be a badly designed script which has locked down some of your configuration by accident (sounds like you might be running Win2000 or XP) - log on as the administrator user and see if you can correct it on that account as in theory that has ultimate control of a non-domain PC.

Alternately it could be something nasty that's made other changes in addition to what you have seen which puts it into more into the spyware/malware category. Best way to check for the presence of these is to install & run AdAware and see if that fixes it, repeat the process with Spybot Search & Destroy if the problem persists...

- Tony

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