I have and regularly use AdAware and Spybot Search and Destroy, have Panicware’s Pop-Up Stopper installed and functional whenever I’m online, and use Housecall every couple of months to locate any additional virus material.
However, I’ve run into one bit of invasion ware that doesn’t seem to be locatable or removable by any of the above.
This takes over my homepage and redirects it to “res:\mshp.dll\index#22776.” This produces a Google-like search page with supposed links to a wide range of resources. A system search shows MSHP in my WINNT directory, but deleting it from there is ineffectual – the program comes right back the next time I load MSIE.
Obviously I’m doing something wrong, or omitting a deletion step – but I cannot figure out what.
Would you like to change your homepage to Rocket Search?
Errr, sorry. Try this site, which has some info on ditching it. I cleaned my parents computer using ‘CWShredder’, and it seems to have done a good job.
Search Registry for mshp.dll as well, and delete any entyries that refer to it, then delete it from your WINNT directory. You can then go and set your homepage to whatever you want.
Hi. I’ve got the same problem. I downloaded CWShredder, but when I tried to use it I got a message that said: “A REQUIRED .DLL FILE, MSVBVM60 WAS NOT FOUND.” So what the heck I am I supposed to do about that? And when you answer, please consider that your average high schooler certainly knows more about computers than I.
