Sowar and www.redtube.com

Have you encountered the problem wherein your default home page changed to "www.redtube.com" without your knowledge? This is caused by a certain virus that made changes in your system.

To delete the virus that caused this, just follow these steps.

1. Grab a copy or download Quicksmash Application and Trend Micro Hijackthis v2.0.2
2. Run your computer in safe mode.
3. Install the Hijackthis Application, then do a system scan.
4. Select all item that contains sowar.vbs as well as those that contains redtube.com.
5. Click the fix and check button, then close the application
6. Run Quicksmash and click the Smash button at the center.
7. After using Quicksmash, restart your computer.
8. Access your registry(type regedit in run). Press "ctrl f" then type sowar in the textbox.
9. If you found an item with sowar.vbs, delete the item(right click the item and choose delete). Continue looking for sowar in your registry until no trace of it is found.

For questions, please leave a comment or email me at jonard_chess@yahoo.com