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Speaker's Xeno · Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 3:26 pm Post subject: wth

ok im starting to get a little pissed at my ie whenever i open it i get some stupid search crap

about:blank

i get that in the adress bar and it brings me to some stupid ass search site. i have searched for adware, virus, and registry crap and found nothing. can someone help me
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Hamese · Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 3:31 pm Post subject:

If you use adware6, I would suggest changing the settings and enabling a deep registry scan... also scan your host files.

Then when you run it choose the custom scan button. I would imagine you are reffering to something like coolsearch or fast search. I had that crap forever and never got rid of it until I did the above... let me know if you want the exact settings, but its relativly simple once you get into the settings menu.
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Kjeldorian Royal Guard 42 · Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 4:06 pm Post subject:

Chiggers! Hate those!

Whenever I get those searches installed, I just copy the url and paste it into Google. It always brings up something on removal. Everytime, somewhere, someone else has had the problem and has a fix.

For me, it's usually from inadvertantly clicking "yes" on one of those annoying Install Popups or from something attached to a file from a peer to peer network d-load.

Crap, many of those things require no d-load at all. They just attach themselves like a parasite. Hence the name "Chigger".
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Stevo · Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 4:28 pm Post subject:

I used to have popups for medical things untill I figured out where the files where and replaced them with a blank file. Whenever I run Ad-Aware, Spybot, or RegClean, they just freeze up at a certain point. Anyone know how to fix this?
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Mike · Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 8:05 pm Post subject:

if u got some realy bad spyware problem email adware they'll tell u how to fix it
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John Doe · Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 9:41 pm Post subject:

Sounds like a browser hijacker got installed. Do some searches on browser hijacking and hope you didnt get the CWS one.

Check your add/remove programs to see what might be there too as some install there.

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