page could not be found got replaced


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everytime i type an address wrong the page that normally appears, "page could not be found" got replaced with some porn search page :angry: does anyone know where i could chagne this back, i did a adaware scan and an antivirus scan and i don't get anything, i also checked the shdoclc.dll to see if the 404 page got replaced and it didn't.

does anyone got any idea how i can get this back to normal, maybe some regestry change, or something

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which porn search page - this could help in figuring out what junk you infected yourself with. For now check what your search settings are.

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in the address bar it just shows whatever i typed before, if i right click the page it shows what i typed for the address in the properties dialog,

so i guess i have to show u a picture of what it is

and i did a spyware search and adaware comes up with nothing :s

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Something like this happened to me before - it gave me "free daily lesbian pictures"

Ad-aware wouldn't detect it, but I found it in "Internet Options/Settings/View Objects"

Might be something in there.

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ok, try this. open your registry editor, edit->find, input "search page" in the "find what" box, see if there is the address that is same as the address it displayed when you typed the wrong page address. if yes, delete it. and don't fail to "find next" after you delete the first one you find.

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Yeah there is a file that you can modify to change all the text on that page.

If you are talking about the "web page could not be found" page.

I don't know the actual name of the file but if you watch the status bar on iexplorer you will see the location of the file as it loads it. take a screen shot to help with the name as the text will only be there for a few seconds.

once you find the file simply open it in notepad and change the settings to whatever you want.

I have seen this done before the only thing is that i can't remember the name of the goddam file.

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There were a load of computers where I used to work which had thet as the default homepage on IE... nobody in the pathetic IT department could do a thing about it lol... god damn they were useless there.

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The setting for that page is in the registry, seach the URL and replace it with what you want.

The default for the keys that control this are as follows;

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
"Search Page"="http://www.microsoft.com/isapi/redir.dll?prd=ie&ar=iesearch"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl]
"provider"=""

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search]
"CustomizeSearch"="http://ie.search.msn.com/{SUB_RFC1766}/srchasst/srchcust.htm"
"SearchAssistant"="http://ie.search.msn.com/{SUB_RFC1766}/srchasst/srchasst.htm"

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also...there's likely a executable firing up through the registry run key:

here:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

that will change the above mentioned settings even if you yourself corrects it...make sure to check that section in the registry for any unknown executable...some trojans go as far as to make the registry change for individual users logging into an NT based system...so even if you log in as the admin and make all these corrections...as soon as a user logs in; that run key for this user fires up the given executable file...

you have to find this file and remove it off of your drive....

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