Spyware Issues (was Bellrock Warning)

[Black21Jack]

Well, on advice from another posting I had regarding Viper Software I went directly to www.bellerock.com, not through an affiliate link. I proceeded to download Home Casino and install the software. Now I dont know if you read older posts of mine regarding Golden palace Casino and some fishy activity on my computer after using their software but you can read it here Anyways, as soon as I installed the software my internet home page was changed to res://myfzv.dll/index.html#27859 which is called Home Search, hmmm, Home Casino, Home Search, is there a connection? Now when I open my IE it goes directly here and I get a flood of pop up ads along with it. It also now tries to install some kind of feature for Office XP everytime I run IE. I get an Office Installer pop up and when I click cancel it gives me the error that I have included as a picture below. Spyware Blaster and SpyBot S&D even when fully updated cannot detect anything on my comp. Now when I go to Control Panel Add/Remove Programs I do find three programs that are responsible, one called Home Search Assistant, Search Extender, and Shopping Wizard. When I go to uninstall these programs I get the message: Unable to open "http://looking-for.cc/uninstall/program name.html" No one can say that it is coincidence, that it is not from Home Casino. The search is called Home Search, and I have not had a problem on my computer since the Golden Palace fiasco. I have had my computer cleaned and immunized by several spyware/adware programs and I have not installed any other software until yesterday. When I had only RTG on my comp. no problems. This is very shady, and I caution all against downloading anything from Belle Rock. Who knows what info they are obtaining off my hard drive, and no matter what I do I cannot get rid of it.

[mucullus]

I also played at Home Casino, but I didn't recognize any spyware coming with the software.
Btw. Home Casino is the only Belle Rock Casino that doesn't use the new VIPER software, but the old microgaming sw.

[Sodax77]

Can't help, but try with google "1033/setup.hlp" (with "-marks).
Also check with SpyBot S&D (Advance mode) what programs start, etc. Not usual search-thing.

[sw2003]

I played at Belle Rock using the download software. I did not get any spyware,
homepage change, pop up etc.

I have also installed Golden Palace but also did not get any spyware, homepage change, pop up etc.

So are you sure the source of your problem is with the downloaded softwares?
Why would they pick you out of all the people? If you are that lucky, you
should be a millionaire by now. Have you visited other dubious sites besides
Belle Rock? May be one of your other frequently visited sites is the source of
the problem?

[HateMG]

You can manually delete these files doing search in Windows Explorer on C: drive. Also check the registry (run command regedit)

[padanian]

I downloaded the software of Home Casino just today, but did not face any problem. The same for all the other casinos from that group.

[jpm]

The problem is you went to the wrong website, the bellerock website is at www.bellerockGAMING.com

There's nothing shady about the bellerock group, just the scumbag affiliate that setup the website you mentioned. If I were you, I'd notify bellerock directly about this. They should pull that clown from their affiliate program.

Also, try adaware from www.lavasoft.de and see if that cleans up the problems.

[Black21Jack]

I played at Belle Rock using the download software. I did not get any spyware,
homepage change, pop up etc.

I have also installed Golden Palace but also did not get any spyware, homepage change, pop up etc.

So are you sure the source of your problem is with the downloaded softwares?
Why would they pick you out of all the people? If you are that lucky, you
should be a millionaire by now. Have you visited other dubious sites besides
Belle Rock? May be one of your other frequently visited sites is the source of
the problem?

Umm, as I said before no software has been installed on my computer for months. As soon as I installed from Home Casino it happened, my computer has been fine for months now. Coincidence? No other sites have I downloaded anything from. Spybot advanced, fully updated, spy ware blaster fully updated, control panel add remove, I have done it all, this one is pure stealth. As far as dubious sites, I do not play any casinos except RTG, so on advice I went to Belle Rock and this is the only other site I have downloaded from since Phoenician which definitely does not do it because it just happened right after installation of Home Casino.

[jpm]

In addition to the programs you mentioned you were using, you should also use an internet security program like Zone Alarm. What happened is a classic malware/spyware/browser hijack. An internet security package along with spybotm, etc. would help prevent such things from happening again.

As I said before, www.bellerockgaming.com is the correct website for this group, not www,bellerock,com (dots removed so people don't click on it and get hosed). I'm certain that is the root of the problem and not home casino.

[Black21Jack]

In addition to the programs you mentioned you were using, you should also use an internet security program like Zone Alarm. What happened is a classic malware/spyware/browser hijack. An internet security package along with spybotm, etc. would help prevent such things from happening again.

As I said before, www.bellerockgaming.com is the correct website for this group, not www,bellerock,com (dots removed so people don't click on it and get hosed). I'm certain that is the root of the problem and not home casino.

Thanks for the tip, I had zone alarm on but it was too annoying especially since I use a wireless connection from my laptop, bloody thing went off all the time. I have both Spy Bot S&D and Spyware Blaster running and it did not catch it but I guess I will re install Zone Alarm.