ihopn.dll

[slaader]

Hi all,

I am having a huge problem with a hijacker which has taken over my internet explorer. I am unable to get rid of it, or view web pages using explorer. I've run spybot, spy assassin, and ad-aware. None of those has been able to stop my home page from reverting to res://ihopn.dll/index.html\#96676.

I have even tried to manually delete the ihopn.dll from my system32 folder, and the next time I open a web page, its back.

Please help.

-Michael Amend-

 

[jrbarnett]

Firstly, take heed of information in here:

http://www.tek-tips.com/faqs.cfm?spid=760&sfid=4897

and don't forget the FAQs it references.

Failing that, try this:

http://www.tek-tips.com/faqs.cfm?spid=779&sfid=5240

John

 

[diogenes10]

This is a newer coolwebsearch problem that reloads from a hidden dll. The dlls will vary from one system to the next.

These threads have a little bit of info:

http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cach...x.php?showtopic=15974+spywareinfo+96676&hl=en

http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?s=67c3c4c7024a375509ee5dfb9da029af&showtopic=7447&st=30

http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?showtopic=8847

http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?showtopic=11076

You can search on the html96676 or homesearchassistant for other current efforts in removing this stuff. If you weren't running adaware in safe mode, I think I'd take a look at those comments and try that as a first step-It looks like adaware may have made some changes for this early this week.

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