L
Lon Sharp
Help!
Something seems to have hijacked Internet Explorer. Every
time I open a browser window, unwanted (and unremovable)
search toobars show up with links to gambling and/or adult
sites. In addition, every link I click on takes the
browser to an adult site and repeatly opens new windows
(despite a pop-up blocker) that I can barely keep up with
closing. I believe that my son installed something he
shouldn't have, but he doesn't know what, and I cannot
find any unknown programs anywhere. This mystery program
also eats up ALL available memory on the machine. The
only way to stop it is to uninstall IE and run Netscape.
Re-installing IE does not help, and I don't know if
reinstalling XP will do any good.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Something seems to have hijacked Internet Explorer. Every
time I open a browser window, unwanted (and unremovable)
search toobars show up with links to gambling and/or adult
sites. In addition, every link I click on takes the
browser to an adult site and repeatly opens new windows
(despite a pop-up blocker) that I can barely keep up with
closing. I believe that my son installed something he
shouldn't have, but he doesn't know what, and I cannot
find any unknown programs anywhere. This mystery program
also eats up ALL available memory on the machine. The
only way to stop it is to uninstall IE and run Netscape.
Re-installing IE does not help, and I don't know if
reinstalling XP will do any good.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.