Sunday, September 26, 2004

bloody "search the web" toolbar

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Spent 4 hours today to remove adwares from my PC - I woke up this morning, started the PC - there were ads all over the place - don't rely on Norton for the hardwares, it is useless ..

Download first Bazooka, the only solution I am afraid to remove most of the adwares - you messed with your PC - you have to get your hands dirty and remove manually all the registry entries and malicious dlls fro your disk.

Once this is done, you may still have bad surprise, such as this bloddy " search the web " tool bar!!

Just do a search in google for " Begin2search ", and you will find the solutions. What amazes me is that some advise to remove thousands of keys, while only 2 have to be removed to fix the problem :
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\clsid\{52fe5233-367c-4efb-bdd7-0be4d212c107}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\internet explorer\toolbar\{52fe5233-367c-4efb-bdd7-0be4d212c107}

winpatrol


Once you have fixed that, download Winpatrol, and make sure that next time you meet a newby, tell him :

"You need two softwares for you PC before you start browsing internet :

  • Norton (Virus prevention tool)
  • Winpatrol (Adware prevention tool)

Note: No, I am not a winpatrol affilate, I am just so pissed off to have spent half a day fixing this!!

1 Comments:

At 10:36 PM, Blogger frog-web said...

you can also use a kool piece of freeware called:
HijackThis.

http://www.spychecker.com/program/hijackthis.html

 

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