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Spyware/Adware
For some unknown reason, a kind of spyware/adware
(ISEARCH) was downloaded onto my IE6 browser. Now, the search button on my browser is missing and i cant access the toolbars option to uncheck it. It totally blocked out any selection in the toolbars list. And it created a toolbar (from ISEARCH) and i have no way of removing it. Even with anti-spyware programs, i can only block the toolbar from appearing but my browser is still in a mess. Can anyone help? I would really be grateful.. Thanks |
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Spyware/Adware
Try Spybot Search and Destroy (http://spybot-spyware.com/) It may take
several passes to eliminate this particular nasty bot. Then go in and disable automatic anything in your internet options. I have no idea why Microsoft (and Netscape) ignored 25 years of research in computer security and basic common sense by setting the defaults to allow downloaded web pages and emails to ravage your computer, but it's a nasty world out there and your defaults should really be to do nothing automatically that will result in changes to your machine that survive the current web page without asking. -- Warren Montgomery ( http://home.att.net/~wamontgomery ) "Adren" wrote in message ... For some unknown reason, a kind of spyware/adware (ISEARCH) was downloaded onto my IE6 browser. Now, the search button on my browser is missing and i cant access the toolbars option to uncheck it. It totally blocked out any selection in the toolbars list. And it created a toolbar (from ISEARCH) and i have no way of removing it. Even with anti-spyware programs, i can only block the toolbar from appearing but my browser is still in a mess. Can anyone help? I would really be grateful.. Thanks |
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Spyware/Adware
On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 17:12:32 -0700, "Adren"
wrote: For some unknown reason, a kind of spyware/adware (ISEARCH) was downloaded onto my IE6 browser. Now, the search button on my browser is missing and i cant access the toolbars option to uncheck it. It totally blocked out any selection in the toolbars list. And it created a toolbar (from ISEARCH) and i have no way of removing it. Even with anti-spyware programs, i can only block the toolbar from appearing but my browser is still in a mess. Can anyone help? I would really be grateful.. Thanks Adren, How current is your virus protection? Try these free online virus scans: http://www.bitdefender.com/scan/license.php http://security.symantec.com/ssc/home.asp http://housecall.trendmicro.com/hous...start_corp.asp Now check for, and learn to defend against, additional carriers of infection. First, download LSP-Fix from http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm, and CWShredder from http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4086.html. Both free. Next, run CWShredder. Have it fix all variants. Now check for, and remove, spyware. Get HijackThis http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=3155 and Spybot S&D http://security.kolla.de/index.php?l...&page=download. Both free. 1) Install and run Spybot. First update it ("Search for updates"), then run a scan ("Check for problems"). Trust Spybot, and make all recommended deletions. 2) Install and run HijackThis. Do NOT make any changes immediately. Save the HJT Log. 3) Have your HJT log interpreted by experts at one or more of the following forums (and post it here): http://forums.net-integration.net/ http://www.spywareinfo.com/forums/ http://forums.tomcoyote.org/ http://www.wilderssecurity.com/ If removal of any spyware affects your ability to access the internet (some spyware builds itself into the network software, and its removal may damage your network), run LSP-Fix. Harden your browser. There are various websites which will check for vulnerabilities, here are three which I use. http://www.jasons-toolbox.com/BrowserSecurity/ http://bcheck.scanit.be/bcheck/ https://testzone.secunia.com/browser_checker/ Harden your operating system. Check at least monthly for security updates. http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ Block possibly dangerous websites with a Hosts file. Three Hosts file sources I use: http://www.accs-net.com/hosts/get_hosts.html http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm (The third is included, and updated, with Spybot (see above)). Cheers, Chuck Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing. |
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