hi, i have internet explorer 6 on my pc, and i also have mozilla firefox.
my IE6 seemed to have some kind of hijacker/redirecter attatched to it, and as a consequence i could not go to the sites that i wanted to.
instead it sent me to a wonderfull array of financialy oriented sites, offering me loans and extortionate rates of interest.
i tried everything i had in my antivirus arsenal, to no avail.
i tried, webroot spysweeper, adaware, spybot, asquared, and kaspersky av pro, to no avail.
i even tried using the search assistant to locate files on my pc which matched the names of the offending sites i was sent to, and as fast as i was deleting all their components, they were returning with new urls for me to visit.
so i downloaded mozilla firefox, which works okay.
what i need to know is,, can i remove IE6 from my pc, and if i do, will it remove the offending nasty with it?
and if i can, and it does, can i then reinstall a new IE6, and will it be clean?
thanks for any help.

yamahonduki, steve.

I suggest you read and follow all instructions in the pinned topic titled Preparation Guide For Use Before Posting A Hijackthis Log.

When you have done that, post a log in the HijackThis Logs and Analysis Forum, not here, for assistance by the HJT Team Experts.

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hi.

i feel like a bit of a fraud.
i seem to have sorted out my problem now.
seems like i had something called "winbrume.dll" in my system32 files.
once i isolated it, it was just a matter of changing the permissions.
after that, i simply erased it all with my eraser.
then i ran another hijack this scan, and low and behold, it said the file was missing
just to be sure, i ran several search assistant searches, and they came up as no results found.
by IE6 is working fine again now and the wife can surf her auction sites again

i will just add that i did this fix myself, and i would warn others that eraser is a dangerous program in the wrong hands.

also, i hope i havent caused anybody any unnessassary work in trying to research my problem.

steve.

winbrume.dll is a variant of the Dropper.GF trojan which is a browser hijacker. Glad to hear you were able to resolve the problem.