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Help!!! Internet Explorer on my iPaq4150 appears to have been hijacked. When I click on any of my favourites or type anything directly into the address bar I get directed to one of these annoying affiliates link websites. I've tried deleting history, cookies, soft resets, everything I can think of and I can't get rid of it. The only way to get onto anything else is to set the home page to the default (hp) setting. Even then, as soon as I click on any of the links on that page, bam, straight back to this bloody website. I don't want to do a hard reset as I stupidly deleted all bar the latest of my backup files on my storage card and this appears to have got onto the iPaq since before the last backup. The address (and for gods sake don't go there in case you get stuck with it too) that appears to be at the root of all the pages is www.rc12.overture.com Does anyone have any ideas as to how I can get rid of whatever has found its way onto my iPaq? I'm not even sure how it got on as I'm always pretty carefull about what I load and click on. Short of trying a hard reset I'm stumped. I can't even find any spyware removal software for Pocket Pc, loads for XP but not for the iPaq. Any help greatly appreciated, Cheers
AFAIK, rc12.overture.com is a site for purchasing ringtones. Any chance you had a ringtone purchase interrupted by a dropped connection before it completed?
Nope, never bought a ringtone, not interested in them. At the moment, whatever I type into the address bar stays there eg, Google So I end up with Google in the address bar and what looks like a search engine site. Whatever you click on within that page then takes you to a typical page of affiliate links and that's when you see Hello from Apache etc in the address bar. Can't get rid of it.
Oops, "Hello from Apache" and the smiley is not what I typed, now I'm really baffled, what I typed was www(dot)rc12(dot)overture(dot)com/ and when I posted the thread it changed it to "Hello from Apache."Someone please tell me what's happened to my iPaq
If you have a registry editor, find the settings for Internet Explorer. You can see what is stored for Start Page, Search Page, and other parameters. This can help you troubleshoot and even manually define a different Start Page to launch. You might even see a parameter setting that runs on PIE launch that you can identify as the problem addition.
Your issue is very unusual because most control scripts cannot run on PIE but it sounds as though a redirect script is at work. It is something I have not heard of on the WM platform before.
Unfortunately don't have a registry editor, nor would I know how to use one. Is one available and how hard would it be to use. I've heard of this sort of problem before on Windows but never before for Pocket PC. Do you reckon its worth contacting HP or anyone?
Total Commander is a free file manager that includes a registry editor. It is available in this site's downloads or at http://www.ghisler.com/pocketpc.htm (where it new beta version is listed). Search on the phrase 'Internet Explorer' and you will be taken to the block of entries you need. Take a look at the values stored for 'Start Page' and 'Search Page.'
It sounds as though some html code has been changed on your default home or parameters have added to the registry entry. You need to bypass this hy changing your home page without launching PIE and this can be done in the Start Page registry entry.
I can tell you that HP will most likely recommend a hard reset to remedy the situation, especially since you cannot identify the exact source of the problem. A hard reset would solve this for you, if nothing else works.
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