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Spyware that won't go away
Tech specs: Win2k and IE.
My friend has web-based school email as his home page. Whenever he logs in, he is taken to an ad screen. If he hits back, he is logged in and on his mail screen(ie, inbox). His homepage is reset by this action to some search engine. We have used both Ad-Aware and another spybot destroyer(in that order, and the second thing found more, which makes me unhappy about ad-aware) but the problem remains. However, it does not happen when he uses another home page, such as Yahoo. Okay, we think, it's the page. Nope. Doesn't happen on mine. So our current hypothesis is that there is an extraneous registry value associated with PHP or some such that the school's web email uses. We are reaching out to other resources, but I thought I'd look here. Thoughts?
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