Bob said:
Last night while my wife was surfing, we managed to get a
search engine to take over our navigation bar. I finally
killed it with Ad-Aware 6.9, but now the navigation bar
has no search engine at all. How do I get back to using
MSN or Yahoo as a default search engine?
You may not have removed all the Spyware.
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Go to:
http://www.tomcoyote.org/hjt/
Download "Hijack This!" [freeware] or download direct (below):
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/hijackthis.zip
Unzip, double-click "HijackThis.exe" and Press "Scan".
When the scan is finished, the "Scan" button will change into a "Save Log" button.
Click: "Save Log" (generates: "hijackthis.log")
Next, go to the below location:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/forums/
Sign in, go to the "Spyware and Hijackware Removal" section.
Press "New Topic", copy and paste hijackthis.log into your new message.
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HTH
--
siljaline
"Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game
because they almost always turn out to be -- or to be indistinguishable from
-- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time."
- Neil Stephenson, _Cryptonomicon_
