unwanted installation

[LJM]

I just reformatted my hard drive in order to get rid of a
nasty problem with Office. Now, the second day into the
process, somehow a search menu has appeared on top of my
Explorer window. My home page, www.google.com, has been
replaced by ez-finder.com. No matter how many times I try
to set my home page back to google, the next time I open
Explorer, it's still there. No matter how many times I
close the search bar, it returns, not just in Explorer,
but also on every other new window in My Computer, too.
How did it get there and how can I rid my system of this
invasive and unwanted feature?

 

[Jerry]

Sounds like you were installing your stuff while online, with no protection.
You should never allow your system to have internet access without a
firewall running, a virus scanner present, a spy sweeper running, etc. (PC
Magazine ran a test - it took 10 minutes for an unprotected system connected
to the web to get infected and corrupted.)

Go here nad download CWShredder:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html and see if it helps.

Also, install the other stuff, if you have it.

 

[JC]

See post dated today at 10:33am concerning search engines.