Re: Autosearch is dead - HELP!!!!!!

From: Touch Base (animals_at_thezoo.com)
Date: 03/18/04

  • Next message: Chris: "Re: Autosearch is dead - HELP!!!!!!" 
    Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 09:57:30 +1100

    Great spyware-related information and resources;
    http://www.spywareinfo.com
    http://www.pchell.com/support/spyware.shtml

    Browser Hijacking
    http://www.spywareinfo.com/articles/hijacked/

    http://www.lavasoftusa.com (Free)
    Ad-aware is a free multi spyware removal utility that scans your
    memory,registry and hard drives for known spyware and scumware components
    and lets you remove them safely. Once downloaded use it's update facility
    and then run the program. It is updated frequently.

    http://www.lurkhere.com/~nicefiles/ (Free)
    SPYBOT SEARCH AND DESTROY : Searches your system for so-called spyware,
    adware and similar threats to your privacy and security. If such threats are
    found, it can give you some information about the interloper and remove it
    from your system; creating a backup beforehand. Once downloaded use it's
    update facility and then run the program. It is updated frequently.

    http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareblaster.html (Free)
    SPYWAREBLASTER doesn't scan and clean for spyware - it prevents it from ever
    being installed. How? By setting a "kill bit" for the spyware ActiveX
    controls, it prevents the installation of any of them from a webpage. You
    can run Internet Explorer with Active-X enabled, but you will never even get
    a "Yes/No" box popped up, asking you to install a spyware Active-X control
    (Internet Explorer will never download or run it!). All other Active-X
    controls or plug-ins will work fine. The SpywareBlaster database contains
    information on these known spyware Active-X controls. Make sure you run the
    Check For Updates feature frequently to get the latest database! (And make
    sure you check the new items to protect your system against them!)

    A wealth of information on many of the spyware items that SpywareBlaster
    protects against can be accessed here: http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite/ This
    site can also check any scum/spyware you might have acquired (in some cases
    unknowingly) in trips around the internet.

    http://www.wilderssecurity.com/bhblaster.html (Free)
    BROWSER HIJACK BLASTER protects your system from browser hijackers and
    spyware that alters your Internet Explorer settings. Running silently in the
    background, Browser Hijack Blaster only springs into action when an attempt
    is made. It watches and protects the following items:
    IE Homepage, IE Default Page, IE Search Page, BHOs. Whenever one of the
    above items is changed, or a BHO is added, you are immediately provided with
    information on the item, along with the option to keep the change, or revert
    to your previous settings.

    "Chris" <savasca@vcu.edu> wrote in message
    news:60415fe8.0403181453.d80d46a@posting.google.com...
    > I've already posted this question to a couple of other Windows groups,
    > but they didn't provide any help thus far. Here's the story, in a
    > nutshell:
    >
    > Some stinking webpage (Sqwire.com) commandeered my Internet Explorer
    > search settings, including my autosearch ("Search From URL Bar").
    > I've finally removed all the adware/spyware and uninstalled the
    > software, but now when I type a search into the bar (for example: "go
    > Iraq"), it tries to open the page:
    >
    > http://go Iraq/
    >
    > Which of course doesn't work and isn't what I want! If I navigate to
    > HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl in
    > the registry, all my search settings are there for using Google as the
    > URL search and are as follows:
    >
    > (Default) "http://www.google.com/keyword/%s"
    > "+"
    > # "$23"
    >
    > And so on and so forth, with the rest of the switches and conversions
    > listed as needed. Why isn't this thing working? I've already
    > reinstalled MSIE, but it didn't fix the problem. I'm using MSIE 6
    > (fully updated to my knowledge, I just hit the Windows Update site
    > today) and Windows 98SE.

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