How Do I Get Rid Of It!?

[ErnieNow]

I am very angry. I've had this computer for nearly 3 months\, and I have kept it very clean. Just today though I open IE and my homepage is locators.com! These stupid annoying locator toolbars and home page that keeps changing back to locators is really pissing me off. How do i get rid of them for good?! I've already tried spybot with the latest updates.

[xbenjix72]

have u d/l'ed anyhting lately. any programs, shareware, or freeware?
since you've noticed the problem.

[Kubie]

ErnieNow,

I just read in another post about running Spybot or Ad Aware in safe-mode.
Give it a try.
Carl

[ErnieNow]

I haven't downloaded anything recently, thats whats got me stumped. I have been site surfing for cool backrounds though - didnt d/l anything. I'll try the safemode thing.

ALso, I can see sometihng in add/remove progs called web assisstant, though i can't remove it.

[Redo40]

Ad-aware has the Locator.com hijacker in it's target base and should get rid of it. If it doesn't want to fix it, try running it in safe mode.

[ErnieNow]

Thanks redo, is it a comparable program to spybot? I don't want one of those intrusive progs that's just as bod as the one I want gone!

[Redo40]

Ad-aware is a good program...I run it and Spybot both on a regular schedule.

[DragonNOA1]

Also, besides running spybot & adaware, make sure nothing unwanted is not starting up in msconfig. i once had a program called systray_.exe starting up that was actually a virus, so be aware of tricks like this! good luck.