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For the love of the Gods, someone help me (solved now, thank you all! ^__^)

I turned on my computer this morning to find that my homepage had been changed to http://default-homepage-network.com/newspynotice.html (PLEASE don't go to it, I don't want anyone else to end up with this thing because of that) and I keep getting told to install "the newest cool drivers from AT-T Games" or some shit like tht, it's one of those ones that say "Click Yes to install etc" and when you click no, a pop-up appears that says "You MUST click Yes to install!" and makes you click no again, and repeats OVER AND OVER *cries*
For ages now, since my computer was first formatted in fact, I've been unable to change my homepage, but I just click the Make My Yahoo! My Hompage button on My Yahoo! and that meant I skipped the whole pop-up thing, and my computer was running pretty fine, although the homepage option was grayed out.
Anyway, since this morning, my internet and computer have been running really slow, Ad-Aware won't install, when I press Ctrl+N or Open Link in New Window, it takes about 10 seconds for the thing to actually open, then takes ages to load.
I've posted this same message on a couple of other forums, but I have bad experiences with that. People at OpenTechSupport never reply to my topics until I've fixed the problem. Phooey to them. But I love you people and you all love me so you'll help me... right? *adorably cute puppy eyes* :D
I'm going out of my mind here, can someone please help me?
Thank you for your time.

I have this bug. I haven't figured out how to get rid of it, but I know how to completely nullify it's existance. Instead of going in through the main icon, go to through the start menu to "my favorites," drag the page that you want to be your new homepage and make it a new shortcut, and use that one instead for getting on the internet. That done, just go through and clear your temp internet files, and it shouldn't ever bother you again.

When you say that Ad-Aware won't install, do you mean you can't get to the Ad-Aware page, or that after you download the program you can't run it? Because, by the sounds of it, you've got a whole lot of spyware installed on your system, and while Lycanthrope's solution will likely make your computer usable again, it's really just a temporary solution. I'd very strongly recommend that you try to get Ad-Aware (or possibly SpyBot installed and running, after which you might want to look into getting a more secure web browser.

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Originally Posted by Lycanthrope

Hmm, I never actually considered doing that >.< Silly me. Well, the Temp Net Files yeah, I do that often enough.
Also, it just occurred to me than when it very first occurred back when my computer was first formatted, I should have just restored the registry from the day before. D'oh!

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Originally Posted by Drooling Iguana

Yeah I think there's probably a poopload of the stuff hiding somewhere. And I meant that once I download it, I can't get it to run. I'll try SpyBot, and I'm downloading Mozilla just now.

Thanks both of you for the help.

Here are my answers in order of increasing effectiveness of the solution. Also the order a computer support person will give them to you in.
1.) Close and Restart the Program
2.) Reboot
3.) Uninstall and Reinstall
4.) Format and Reload
alternative to 4 that may be just as helpful
Go to the command line and type in the following:
deltree y/ c:

Edit: That was supposed to be a joke making fun of computer support persons. And don't type that command I wrote up there.

You know, enough people seem to have problems.. I'd love to help troubleshoot :)

Anyway, if you can't solve the problem, try getting Hijack This! and pasting a log of what it scans. It would help identify things.
[ if you can't view the page, direct link ]

Basically, that program would list what's all being used by MSIE and Windows when it comes to the Internet and start pages and the like -- it's really helpful if you have people who aren't within sight of your computer trying to help.

I'm thinking that Spybot will help you out, though, and then you could run Ad-Aware later.

Yay it's all working now! Although the only bad thing is that Mozilla doens't support the Yahoo Toolbar thing, but that doesn't matter really.
On a plus note, Mozilla doesn't seem to suffer from the color problems IE had with my video card, so yay! Swords for everyone!
I guess the mods can either delete this or close it now.

It also blocks pop-ups.

Yeah there's that too. Yahoo Toolbar did that too, so Mozilla's one makes up for that loss.

I answered all my computer troubles buy reformatting my hard drive, buy thats not for every one. but i did have like millions of spy-ware and viruses. soo my pc was pertty fucked until i did that.