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Originally Posted by livius drusus
Spybot is great - better than AdAware, imo - but it can't clear a stubborn hijack. Something like the horrendous Lycos Sidesearch needs a bigger caliber gun to wipe it away.
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I had to use HijackThis to clear a nasty browser hijack some time ago. It can be daunting to use. I thought I'd bookmarked a site that listed what was necessary to keep, safe to keep and what had to go, but I can't find it.
Anyway, here are some safe sites to go to for help in using HijackThis:
TomCoyote.org,
MajorGeeks.com
I can't vouch for this being a "safe" site, but the tutorial looks comprehensive,
bleepingcomputer.com
This site thread has links to sites that have reference lists for help in reading, understanding and cleaning HiJack this log results:
Security Forums.com