What is a virus?

My home page has been hijacked. I've tried manually changing it and it always switches back.

A while back I downloaded Ad-Aware and it shows 5 registry keys and they can't be removed. How do I change this? Is it a corupted registry? The particular page that always comes up is Searchv.com. It also swiped my standard buttons tool bar search.

When I do a Ctr/alt/delete and get a list of processes, I find a svchost.exe listed several times, such as "user," "system," etc. Is this the searchv.com? Can I delete any of these? When I search files for svchost.exe, svchost.exe-3530F672.pf comes up.

The Ad-Aware info is:

Type: RegData

Data: "http://www.searchv.com/w/search.html"

or "http://www.searchv.com/w/"

Rootkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

Object: Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MainSearchPage.searchv.com

or: \MainSearchBar.searchv.com

or: \SearchURL.searchv.com

or: \MainStartPage.searchv.com

or: \MainDefault_Search_URL.searchv.com

or: \MainDefault_Page_URL.searchv.com

or: \SearchSearchAssistant.searchv.com

or: \SearchCustomizeSearch.searchv.com

All of the above are listed.

How do I fix this? Can I fix it? Do I need to bring it in?

Thank,

Regina Rooney

[email protected]

This question was answered on November 7, 2003. Much of the information contained herein may have changed since posting.

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Your problem is that while you thinking someone has corrupted your page they also installed a virus in your computer so what you going to have to do is reinstall your os as well as the programs you use constantly

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Posted by Student of Katharine Gibbs School - New York on November 7, 2003

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