Deleting favourites-please help!

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I have a problem with my favourites folder. Somehow, I suspect a program or cookie has been installed on y computer which now installs a number of websites on my favourites list- sites that I have never visited and which are pornographic and very offensive titles. I have deleted them by right-clickin on them one by one and then emptying the recycle bin. However when I start the computer up next time these are back again in the favourites- this is why I think some kind of program has been installed which keeps putting them there every time I switch on. I cant find any obvious program on my hard drive but I dont know what I am looking for anyway!!
Can someone please help. It is distressing to see this sites evry time i go into my favourites folder and I cannot get rid of them. Thanks
 
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I have a problem with my favourites folder. Somehow, I
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suspect a program or cookie has been installed on y
computer which now installs a number of websites on my
favourites list- sites that I have never visited and
which are pornographic and very offensive titles. I have
deleted them by right-clickin on them one by one and then
emptying the recycle bin. However when I start the
computer up next time these are back again in the
favourites- this is why I think some kind of program has
been installed which keeps putting them there every time
I switch on. I cant find any obvious program on my hard
drive but I dont know what I am looking for anyway!!!
Can someone please help. It is distressing to see this
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sites evry time i go into my favourites folder and I
cannot get rid of them. Thanks!
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Hi, It's called spyware or ad/malware and is a growing
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problem, download spybot and ad-aware update them both
and scan your system.Spyware blaster will prevent many
types of spyware from being installed in the first place.
These tools are becoming almost as important as an anti-
virus.

http://www.safer-networking.org/ Spybot
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareguard.html
http://www.lavasoft.de/ Ad-aware
http://www.merijn.org/downloads.html (CWS)cool web
shedder and hijack this
 
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