I have a google sight as my home page for every time Explorer opens. All of a sudden, now when I go to open my home page, my homepage comes up for a second and then automtically goes to an advertisement for an anti virus program. In my Control Panel my home page is still listed as normal.

Now I have blinking icons on my task bar, when I click them on they go right to these anti virus sites automatically. It is as if someone got into my computer and has switched it, but I cannot switch it back.

I tried going into Contol Panel to remove these, but I do not see any programs with there names on it. One icon takes me to a Spylocked site.

How can I fix this?

use an anti-malware program like spybot search & destroy. This problem usually occurs with spyware installed on your machine

In addition to using Spybot after you update it, use Ad-Aware SE or the 2007 Beta 4. It sounds like you have a browser hijacker. You probably got suckered into clicking a flashing bouncing box that told you something was wrong with your PC. In any case, I suggest you also download a trial of Kaspersky Anti-Virus, update it and do a full system scan for malware. If you're using IE, I'd advise you to turn off ActiveX and any scripting options, or use Firefox or Opera.

You can read our sticky topic Introduction to Anti-Malware and Cleaning.

Use Ad-Aware, Spybot, SpywareBlaster, avast and a few other items that can be found in my Anti-Malware package (Pro recommended).

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get kaspersky... get webroot spysweeper. and next time dont use IE. scan w/ webroot in safemode. and u should be good to go...