Re: Very "hard to kill web search varmint"

From: Donald McDaniel (orthocrossNOSPAM_at_ATiinetDOT.com)
Date: 05/13/04


Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 05:57:27 -0700

Hawaiian Tim wrote:
> After recently geting my browser attacked by some sort of
> cool web search and trying to get rid of it I found it
> very hard to kill It woulkd not let me access Mcaffe web
> site downloads, changed registry values that shut down
> virus controlls,spy bot, ad aware, coolweb shreader,
> hijack this, Everything I could think of Finally wasting
> so much time I wiped my hard drive,reinstalled windows,And
> it got me again before I had time to download mcaffe again!
> (online purchase) so I bought the cd and Installed first
> but still had to sign on via internet, Blasted again!
> finaly was able to do it fast enough on 3rd try. This
> varmint is good.Any more help on this subject would be
> appreceiated.Mcaffe shows 26 blocked events in one hour!

Too bad there's not a utility to remove Yahoo's hijacking of the browser
home page. Once you set My Yahoo as your home page, you can't reclaim the
home page for another site unless you delete your Yahoo account.

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