Computer question, help!!

[glennlovecolleen3]

Something odd happened to my computer. I usually search stuff on google and yahoo, but when I go to those sites, it brings up a totally different search engine now called "RoyalSearch. net"

It's weird because in the browser, it says google. com or yahoo. com but RoyalSearch. net is shown on the screen.

Can someone please help me. How do I get my google and yahoo pages back?? Please, any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[NBAlive2005]

must be those spywares...

goto download.com

and look for keyword "spyware" remover.
hope that helps.

 

[angusr]

Your computer got infected with a Trojan Horse in all likelihood. See the link below for more info. Hope you've got an antivirus. If not you can probably reverse the changes it made to your registry manually . . . .

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/vbs.bootconf.html

 

[glennlovecolleen3]

Thanks guys!! Appreciated it.

I was wondering, my address bar(the place where you type in web addresses) on my Internet explorer is missing. Anyone know how to get it back?

 

[lander]

Right click the grey area (where the address bar should have been) and make sure to check the option for "Address Bar".

 

[Dante]

yeah ...glenn another one is Spybot .com gets them off your computer

 

[lander]

I use the popular AdAware from Lavasoft (because I like to support socialist countries). It's not perfect - but it's free (at least one version is).

 

[bigboydan]

another one is ad-ware pro

 

[glennlovecolleen3]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by lander:
Right click the grey area (where the address bar should have been) and make sure to check the option for "Address Bar".<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I right clicked on a grey button called "Address" and checked the optionm for "Address Bar" but it still doesn't show up.

 

[lander]

Glenn,
Does it show it as clicked? If not, did you install the Google Toolbar (or something similiar) that could "lock" the "toolbar" and prevent you from changing it's layout?

 

[bigboydan]

try making google your home page and lmk what happens.

 

[sfeiner]

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/vbs.bootconf.html

"VBS.Bootconf is a Trojan Horse that modifies the TCP/IP settings to point to a different address. It also changes the Internet Explorer home page and search page to connect to www.royalsearch.net."

 

[glennlovecolleen3]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by sfeiner:
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/vbs.bootconf.html

"VBS.Bootconf is a Trojan Horse that modifies the TCP/IP settings to point to a different address. It also changes the Internet Explorer home page and search page to connect to </BLOCKQUOTE>" TARGET=_blank>http://wwwroyalsearchnet."<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Thanks, good info. I got my info from this site to fix my spyware or hijackware problem:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html

For the address bar, i had it "locked", i just "unlocked" it, and the address bar showed up.

Thanks everyone.

 

[1cheater]

You can also get a free Registry cleaner from a search engine. I have Reg-vac. Cleaning your registry makes your PC run alot more effiently,fast, and improves your multitasking abilities.