startpins

[Swither]

Ok, made a fuck up and used IE9 a couple of days ago and accidently clicked on a bloody pop-up (the type that spam ur screen).

Now I have my browser, Chrome hijacked and each time I start it it opens with this startpins page.

I have avast and malawarebytes running and up to date, but neither can find this bloody thing.

It doean't show up in the browser setting either as an extension or addon or search option. Most web advice says to delete the extensions etc, but as it isn't showing there I an stuck.

I ended up doing a system restore and thought all was fine, until I switched on the pc today.

Any ideas on how to get rid of this bloody thing?

Searches on the net have been pretty crap from what I can see and been no help so far.

 

[Swither]

Ok another help site said to run MS fixit proggy, but still no luck.

It has this web addy when I start the browser btw. http://startsear.ch/

 

[Septian]

Try Norton Power Eraser mate, I've used it on a few peoples computers that have gone haywire, It seems to fix most.

Let it do it's thing with the startup check etc.

 

[Swither]

Tried that, no joy

 

[Septian]

Here is a website I found for changing the search functions, dunno if it will be of any help. (Chrome is near the bottom)

 

[Swither]

Cheers Septy, but no joy. Thanks for trying to help.

That website though has reassured me somewhat as it says it is not too dodgy, just annoying.

The startpins stuff won't show up as an extension or search option in the settings so I can't get rid from there.

Running a full scan of malawarebytes incase it missed it on the quick scan.

 

[Cullhaven]

Its not set up a proxy has it? That happened to a mate of mine - the malware had him hitting a proxy server before going on the net properly.

Inn Internet options it was a box ticked in the connections tab and a web address needed deleting iirc.

 

[Swither]

Don't think so Cull, but I will check when I am home tonight.

Ran a full scan on Malawarebytes - took 4 bloody hours and nada

As it seems it isn't a virus I'll keep looking, but stopped stressing now!

 

[Aciiid]

if you're running win7 you can run IE in safe mode that disables all plugins by default. then in the 'manage addons' options page you can disable it (and perhaps other stuff it also installed) and then cross your fingers.

If it's plugged into crome/firefox then you may need to go into your user profile folder, usually c:\users\<name>\Local Settings (may be application data)\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data and look for a chrome plugins folder and delete all the dll files.

Firefox has a -p flag you can put when you run it to start in profile mode to find out where your profile is and chrome probably has something simular if you can't find it.

 

[Chick]

Again as you are using windows 7 - have you considered performing a system restore to roll back to before you got this funky goodness?

 

[Swither]

Using XP pro.

Checked all the chrome app data, etc in registry and can't find anything there.

Did a system restore for a few days before it appeared, but no joy.

The plug-ins, addons, extensions etc don't show it as actually being there apart from the 'set pages' setting in chrome, I deleted that, but it came back.

 

[Chick]

http://forums.anvisoft.com/viewtopic-45-1270-0.html
?
(or just upgrade to win7 )

 

[Swither]

Odd, but I seem to have got rid of this from Chrome.

All I did was keep removing it from the set pages in settings and swear a lot!

Thanks for all the help.

edit: I think I know what I did to stop it. I noticed that the chrome Adblock app was missing and re-installed it.

 

[Chick]

check your network settings etc too as linked in that pic. Clean IE proxy settings. maybe also check your etc\hosts file

 

[Swither]

check your network settings etc too as linked in that pic. Clean IE proxy settings. maybe also check your etc\hosts file

Cheers, I did check and all ok