spywear

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dmc

it seems that my search engine is corrupted with spywear
and there seems to be no way to customize or change to
another search engine. also, my default home page is
corrupted it will not change. the default home page is
currently displaying percentage symbols and numbers
rather than dell.net. please help, thank you
 
J

jenny

-----Original Message-----
it seems that my search engine is corrupted with spywear
and there seems to be no way to customize or change to
another search engine. also, my default home page is
corrupted it will not change. the default home page is
currently displaying percentage symbols and numbers
rather than dell.net. please help, thank you
.
You can download a program from the web called spybot its
great for removing spywear. Just run the updates then
scan your system fix all problems and then immutize.Hope
it helps
 
N

Nathan Harmsworth

Hi folks
great for removing spywear. Just run the updates then
scan your system fix all problems and then immutize.Hope
it helps

Yep...as Jenny said....download 'Spybot - Seek And Destroy' from

http://security.kolla.de/

The news section is useful to read, but there is a FAQ & forum which
are helpful (I would imagine...havent had time to go there yet ;)) so
after downloading the program, before doing anything else, click the
'Search For Updates' button (if not shown, click the 'Update' button on
the left, then choose that button) then tick all the updates that apply once
they have appeared - of course, you need to be online to check for and
download & install the updates - and click 'Download Updates'.

The program may restart after this and once it has updated itself, click the
'Check for problems' ('Search and Destroy' button 1st if not shown) and
fix all the items you think shouldnt be there - warning tho...some programs
may require 1 or 2 of these programs but remember that you can always
install that program again :)

Also, as Jenny mentioned, click the 'Immunize' button and 'Immunize' all the
bad products, plus choose the 2nd option on the drop down list .i.e
"Display dialog when blocking" instead of "Block all bad pages silently", so
that you see when a website contains a bad product...oh yes, after choosing
that, click the "Install" button to enable it permenantly - no, you dont nee
Spybot running for it to block bad products.

Wow....that was in-depth (and most probably confusing) so now I leave.

Final note: update & run the Search & Destroy program regularly to be safe
that you dont have any spyware/threatware/adware/etc. installed :)

Contribute too if ya can :)

Many regards,
 
D

djs

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dmc said:
it seems that my search engine is corrupted with spywear
and there seems to be no way to customize or change to
another search engine. also, my default home page is
corrupted it will not change. the default home page is
currently displaying percentage symbols and numbers
rather than dell.net. please help, thank you

"Spywear". Is that a new clothing line? Sounds cool.
 

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