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Through the actions of my son visiting a site he shouldn't visit; I now have a problem with a program call Internet Search Technologies. It produces a shell which labels itself as internet explorer but takes over as my homepage. If you go to internet options I am locked out of the option to change my homepage. I have updated and run Spybot 1.2 and AdAware 6 and neither of them recognizes it as spyware. Norton Antivirus doesn't see it as a virus either. The program refused to uninstall and I finally found the folder and deleted it. However somewhere hidden is a file that keeps it going. The "homepage" I now have has no "home or back" icons. I cannot even enter a URL myself and the search function only gives sites they want you to visit. What is really worrisome is that when I came to a forum which I stay permanently logged in it was asking me to login. Obviously it is trying to get user names and passwords. Fortunately my firewall is refusing this program to access the internet so they can't get any information (more than what my son allowed them to get). Any ideas or help would be appreciated.
P.S. I am on a public machine doing this so I may not be able to answer questions in a timely fashion.
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