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Startpage Virus

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Comont54

Post Thu May 27, 2004 11:11 pm

Startpage Virus

I dunno where this thing is coming from, thanks to whomever posted the thread on anti-virus protection I downloaded AVG 6.0 and have its resident shield on at all times, I scanned my computer and with a few removal tools managed to remove everything that was a virus basically. I ran adaware cleaned all the spyware up, also ran Coolwebsearch Shredder took that out aswell. Also ran the anti-hijacking tool I have to remove whatever hijacked pages there might be. So I celebrated the first time ever my computer being completely spotless. Unfortunately, even though it was clean. Sometimes I go to familiar, safe pages and get a virus warning, its usually "Startpage4.ao" or something like that. Then right now I got something that said "ajahdaa.ao" strangely, while my computer was infected with several viruses and was in general chaos. This never happened. So what in the world can be causing me to get startpage viruses when going to familiar places like lancersreactor or gamespy.

"The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine." - Nikola Tesla

Esquilax

Post Fri May 28, 2004 2:00 am

As I recall "startpage" is a virus (and/or a trojan) that changes the homepage of IE. It is nothing to worry about, as the web settings can merely be reset to fix the problem (with most variants). Perhaps the heuristics engine of your AV is overactive, and is picking up false alerts. Either that, or you have a trojan installed on your system . Do you have a trojan scanner?

arton alpha

Post Fri May 28, 2004 9:04 am

i'm not worried about that i have no home page set for IE i just use the drop down list or my favorites to get here
i've said this before and will say it again, there should be a death penalty for ppl who screw up other's computers

Heltak

Post Fri May 28, 2004 9:46 am

Or simply use Firefox since IE sucks

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gromit

Post Fri May 28, 2004 9:52 am

It could be laying dormant on your system. I found in the past that AVG finds viruses well, but doesn't always get rid of them well.

I'd recommend you upgrade to Norton if you can afford it. Otherwise, there are various versions of the startpage virus, I looked them up for you, click the links below to find out how to manually remove them (I wasn't sure which version you have)....

Trojan.Startpage

Java.Startpage

Adware.Startpage

VBS.Startpage.C

VBS.Startpage.B

VBS.Startpage

JS.Startpage

Don't say I never do anything for ya HTH

Edited by - gromit on 5/28/2004 10:53:11 AM

Comont54

Post Fri May 28, 2004 1:23 pm

Thanks gromit Got rid of it

"The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine." - Nikola Tesla

arton alpha

Post Fri May 28, 2004 3:25 pm

tired firefox crashed my system so it moved to the recycle bin

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