right oh.
here's the deal.
I got bitten by something, which replaces my Internet Explorer start page everytime I close the browser. It also pops up a pop-up. The start page goes to some crap search page, with about:blank appearing as the page title in the IE bar. I ran Spybot twice, it got everything the first time around, and then once more to make sure my system is clean. But as you might guess, this didn't help.
The only way I can identify the spyware is by the URL it takes me to, which is a sub page of "4bf65.ilxt.info".
Strangely, Google turns up nothing, but Yahoo does: a few forums with people with the same problems. I checked them out, and they all involve long, drawn out procedures using HijackThis, posting log files for personal inspection and the newest version of AdAware.
I am keen to find a simpler solution. One of the search results pointed me to a small file (hosted on Major Geeks which leads me to believe its legit), which is supposed to, as far as I can tell, fix this problem. Downloaded, ran it a few times as per instruction...still there.
I'll do the HijackThis/AdAware thing if nothing else helps, but there ought to be something easier (note, easier to me is hunting the thing down in the registry and deleting the files/entries.).
So....any ideas?
