I've Been Hijacked

**Jon Kano** · 08-22-2005, 01:21 PM

OK....

Basically I went onto a site that blasted my NEW PC with those browser hi-jackers etc. As a result, my homepage changed, pop-ups started coming up and PC works slower I think.

So why, when Norton Security 2005, Ad-Aware and that new Microsoft windows spyware detects and "removes" the found files, does it just keep coming back and happening all over again????

I dont know what to do, I have already taken this computer back and had it re-formatted/re-installed.

Can someone tell me how I can settle all this?

If its a case of re-installing windows, do I just insert the XP CD, start the set-up and re-install it? or do I have to programme or set all of the drivers, hardware etc? How long does it all take and is it complicated?

Thanks to anyone who reads/replies.

08-22-2005, 01:21 PM	#1
Jon Kano Posts: 10,640	I've Been Hijacked OK.... Basically I went onto a site that blasted my NEW PC with those browser hi-jackers etc. As a result, my homepage changed, pop-ups started coming up and PC works slower I think. So why, when Norton Security 2005, Ad-Aware and that new Microsoft windows spyware detects and "removes" the found files, does it just keep coming back and happening all over again???? I dont know what to do, I have already taken this computer back and had it re-formatted/re-installed. Can someone tell me how I can settle all this? If its a case of re-installing windows, do I just insert the XP CD, start the set-up and re-install it? or do I have to programme or set all of the drivers, hardware etc? How long does it all take and is it complicated? Thanks to anyone who reads/replies. There are stories of coincidence and chance and intersections and strange things told and which is which and who only knows....and we generally say, "Well if that was in movie I wouldn't believe it." Someone's so and so meet someone else's so and so and so on -- It is in the humble opinion of this narrator that these strange things happen all the time.......and so it goes and so it goes and the book says, "We may be through with the past, but the past ain�t through with us."