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      14th Apr 2006
Just any advice would be great on this...
I recently got bombarded with a TON of viruses, trogans, adware, YOU NAME
IT! I have AdAware, Norton, & Spybot and ran them all and it seemed to
always find something that one of the other programs missed. So as a
precaution I also downloaded Windows Defender and a trial version of Webroot
Spy Sweeper and found one nagging problem to be "Adware-Qoologic" but I
believe The Spy Sweeper got rid of that.
Now I'm at the problem where I used to have Google as my default search
engine in every way (search button, address bar) and now it does nothing. I
tried readding the registries for the Google Search Engine but it states that
running processes are not allowing it.
So do I still have issues going on here that I missed or am I doomed for a
reboot?
Thanks for any advice.
 
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"Pablo R." <Pablo R.@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> Just any advice would be great on this...
> I recently got bombarded with a TON of viruses, trogans, adware, YOU NAME
> IT! I have AdAware, Norton, & Spybot and ran them all and it seemed to
> always find something that one of the other programs missed. So as a
> precaution I also downloaded Windows Defender and a trial version of Webroot
> Spy Sweeper and found one nagging problem to be "Adware-Qoologic" but I
> believe The Spy Sweeper got rid of that.
> Now I'm at the problem where I used to have Google as my default search
> engine in every way (search button, address bar) and now it does nothing. I
> tried readding the registries for the Google Search Engine but it states that
> running processes are not allowing it.
> So do I still have issues going on here that I missed or am I doomed for a
> reboot?
> Thanks for any advice.


When this happened to me I simply restored a previous backup and I was good to go.

Do you keep a backup of your system
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...te/backup.mspx

Info relating to your system would help others help you



 
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