Caught this “nkvd.us” virus (worm?) a couple of months ago. It kept changing my default homepage in IE, hence Avant Browser also, to “searchpage.cc”.
Since Avant Browser a has very good and multiple homepage setup, it pretty well blocked back the worm for me so I didn’t really care about its existence.
This morning I tried searching the Net and found info on “searchpage.cc” here, and “nkvd.us” here. I followed the instructions in both pages but the problem still existed. So I turned off my internet access, rebooted the computer, went thru the “searchpage.cc” info page above, ran CWShredder.exe and HijackThis.exe without the internet access and with all browsers closed. I then opened both Avant Browser and IE to make sure the default page was not pointing to “nkvd.us”. Ran SpyBot to double check and found no problems. I rebooted again and then turned on internet access and ran Avant Browser. No problem so far! Cross my fingers and hope for the best.
One more attention… Avant Browser keeps track of all opened pages and brings them back after exit and re-entry. So make sure you close all the infecting pages before you go thru the procedures, otherwise you would have to redo the procedures all over again.
damn.. i got it too.. sigh.