Re: MSIE 6.0; AOL Browser; Searchit; Firefox

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See my first post in this thread. If the usual & reliable anti-malware tools (including HijackThis log interpretation by an expert) don't find Searchit, well..., now you know what to do with that AOL browser *and* it's anti-spyware feature.
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), AH-VSOP

valemike@xxxxxxxxx wrote: 
PA Bear wrote:
> OIC, AOL "Bring Your Own Access."
>
> Anyway, I'd say the real troublemaker is the AOL-bundled antispyware
> app, Mike.  Tell us, if the AOL Browser isn't loaded, does IE work or
> has the antispyware thing totally killed IE now?
> --
> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
> MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), AH-VSOP
>

I'm trying to recall since i don't have my affected laptop with me
right now. But this is what i remember yesterday:

Yes, starting IE works just fine when the AOL standalone beta browser
isn't loaded. So i have an IE instance running, and then i later open
an AOL browser. The bundled-in AOL spyware then flags me that it found
Searchit, and asks if i want to block it. So when I say yes, it blocks
me, and kills the MSIE instance altogether, and it disappears. Later
double-clicks on the IE icon then cause iexplore.exe to launch, but it
gets stuck. Thus the IE browser never launches. I can double-click on
it a few more times, and my CPU utilization goes up more and more. Like
i said, i can eventually get IE to launch the browser again, but by
now, everything is sluggish, and I have to kill all IE instances.

Now if i have a freshly booted machine, and i launch the AOL browser,
then since there is yet no IE instance running, then i don't get any
alerts of Searchit being present.

There is an option though in the aol antispyware to allow things like
Searchit, Gator, etc. to continue to run. If i allow Searchit to run,
then IE has no problems running later.

I wonder if Searchit is truly loaded in my machine, or perhaps the AOL
antispyware is sounding a false alarm and being more of a pest if
anything. 

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