Re: I may be infected - HELP PLEASE!

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Use Ad-aware (make sure it is up to date and it does a full scan) (tip: a
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"Balony" <Balony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:13A8CD9D-7B44-48C7-AC6E-F2C4A0D294C7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I have up to date virus scanner, firewalls and spyware/adware blockers yet
>i
> think i am infected. Whenever i use ANY search engine for ANY keyword it
> says
> there are so many thousand results, yet all it displays are 20-15 porn
> sites.
> A toolbar has started to appear entitled AZESEARCH and my bandwidth sems
> very
> slow all of a sudden. No matter what I set my homepage to, every time i
> re-open Internet Explorer it reverts to http://www.top20search.com. Is
> this
> to do with an ActiveX control that may have been installed? If so, how can
> i
> isolate and delete it?
>
> Any help would be most appreciated!


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