Re: Random, unwanted toolbar
From: war17 (war_at_nospam.com)
Date: 03/28/04
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Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 08:50:02 -0800
Some website has hijacked your Search.
1. Use the following scanners to find and remove the website.
SpyBot S&D searches your harddisk for so-called spy- or adbots;
http://security.kolla.de/
or
Adaware
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
or
CoolWebShredder
http://www.spychecker.com/program/coolwebshredder.html
2. Some porn websites redirects links to their websites using your HOSTS
file. Do a search for the HOSTS (without extension) file and remove the
entry.
3. If still no joy, download HijackThis from Spywareinfo download page
http://www.spywareinfo.com/program/hijackthis.html
Run the program and you will find many entries. Most are OK. Post the log. I
will find the problem for you.
4. For future preventive maintenance, make sure programs cannot just
download on your computer without your permission. From the Internet
Toolbar, go to Tools > Internet Options > Advanced. Make sure "Enable
Install On Demand (Internet Explorer)" and "Enable Install On Demand
(Other)" are unchecked.
-- Warren For additional help, post in http://groups.msn.com/HelpforInternetExplorerorWindowsME/homepage <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:14f9e01c414e3$a4085e00$a101280a@phx.gbl... > I'm not sure how it happened, but an annoying toolbar is > displayed on my browser beneath the address link > everytime I load up Internet Explorer. This toolbar has a > search feature, and frequently has different links on it, > like "NY travel, Movies, Gambling, etc.". It's > called "loadexit" under the View/toolbars option, and > will go away when I uncheck it, but sometimes randomly > reappears again...and always is there when explorer is > first started. Any help please on getting rid of this?
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