Re: Requested URLs turning into searches...

Tech-Archive recommends: Fix windows errors by optimizing your registry

From: David Adner (davidadner_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 02/19/04 

Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 09:59:29 -0500

Some spyware, annoyance apps, etc modify the Registry to change the
default URL for your IE address bar. Try searching the Registry for
that address and modify as necessary. You should only perform this if
comfortable directly modifying the Registry.

Ian Francis wrote:
>
> I am having this wierd problem with my address bar. Whenever I type an
> address without the http:// (which usually indicates that the address is
> local, like a web served database), instead of going to the address it turns
> it into a search on www.search-direct.net. I suspect I have been hit with
> some sort of spyware that is causing this as the problem has only recentlly
> started. Anyone know how to stop this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ian

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