Lycos Side Search

[Alexander Cho]

Most of the time, when i go to the address bar & type in
a web site in the "www.whatever.com", it automatically
redirects me to lycos search, with the phrase in between
www. &.com, for the search & results. This happens
instead of going to the site directly.

Also, when I open up IE 6.0, there are random pop up
windows advertising assorted things appearing, that I
think are not tied to the website. I have adware6.0 &
spybot, but I cannot get rid of these annoying ads.

Thank you for your time. These are starting to get old.

 

[Don Varnau]

Hi,
See: How to remove lycos side search
http://www.spysweeper.com/lycos-sidesearch-uninstall.html
I've used Spy Sweeper a few times. It's been safe and effective, if a little
too aggressive (it found "spyware" that I don't think is really there- maybe
just a difference of opinion.)

If unsuccessful with that procedure, use HijackThis to post a
log to one of the forums where HJT logs are analyzed.

HijackThis Quick Start [tomcoyote.org]: http://www.tomcoyote.org/hjt/

Forums:
http://forum.mvps.org/
http://tomcoyote.com/forums/
http://www.lavasoftsupport.com/
http://www.spywareinfo.com/forums/
http://www.computercops.biz/forums.html
http://www.cybertechhelp.com/forums/index.php
http://forums.techguy.org/
http://boards.cexx.org/
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/security
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/index.php

Additional information, including security tips, at:
Dealing with Unwanted Spyware and Parasites:
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm

You're looking for updates to Ad-aware and Spybot before each use, right? Or
at least every 3-4 days?

Don
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