Search.TargetWords

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Keith

I haven't seen too many people post about this problem, but it annoyed
the hell out of me so here is what I did to fix it.

The Problem: Certain words (i.e. job, gift, etc...) that are
displayed in your browser are automatically linked to
search.targetwords.com regardless of where the page came from. This
became very annoying when trying to develop an application that used
links that included some of these "target words".

The Solution: The only way I found to get rid of these is to Use
SpyBot or some similar spyware/adware removing tool that will search
for specific registry settings, files and programs and give you the
option of deleting them.
 
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siljaline

Keith said:
I haven't seen too many people post about this problem, but it annoyed
the hell out of me so here is what I did to fix it.

The Problem: Certain words (i.e. job, gift, etc...) that are
displayed in your browser are automatically linked to
search.targetwords.com regardless of where the page came from. This
became very annoying when trying to develop an application that used
links that included some of these "target words".

The Solution: The only way I found to get rid of these is to Use
SpyBot or some similar spyware/adware removing tool that will search
for specific registry settings, files and programs and give you the
option of deleting them.

A "HOSTS" file *will* cure these issues.
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

HTH
~Silj

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