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Postby wiggins » Fri Nov 21, 2003 4:33 am

Help! :?: Everytime I restart my computer, and turn on the internet it always goes to a weird website as its homepage... I keep on resetting the homepage using internet options, but whenever I switch off my computer, and return to it later, and switch on the internet, it goes back to the weird homepage. The weird home page is:

http://www.therealsearch.com/index2.shtml

Does anyone know how to stop my coimputer from returning to this page all the time?

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Postby Tet-chan » Fri Nov 21, 2003 5:31 am

try putting blank as your homepage and see what happens
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Postby LorentzForce » Fri Nov 21, 2003 6:20 am

or grab Ad-aware from http://www.download.com, install it, run it, and PURGE THE EVIL PROGRAM!

oh yeah. it works all the time.
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Postby madphilb » Fri Nov 21, 2003 8:35 am

And get rid of IE? :D

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Postby shooraijin » Fri Nov 21, 2003 9:53 am

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Postby inkhana » Fri Nov 21, 2003 10:05 am

w00t! Death to IE! LOL Actually, it does sound like adware, etc. If you can get rid of that, you should have no more problems. You might see what programs are booting at startup.


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Postby Heaven's Cloud » Fri Nov 21, 2003 2:12 pm

I would suggest getting a different browser or so. You could get Mozzila Fireird which is really good, I use it, or you could download the thing that Lorentz told you about. Both of those are my suggestions. But I suggest down with IE, get Mozzlla Firebird. It's free, and if you have a 56k modem it takes about 40 minutes to download. It actually might go faster than IE. But that's probably just because it's faster than my tortise IE. But, whatever you would like to do.
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Postby LorentzForce » Fri Nov 21, 2003 4:42 pm

i'll be happy with IE for sometime.
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Postby Straylight » Sat Nov 22, 2003 2:40 am

I think that if you're going to use IE at all, at least download the Google Toolbar, that makes it bearable (it's got a popup blocker and also has a Google Pagerank
meter on it)

I'm down with the mozilla cru anyways
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Postby Mr. Rogers » Sat Nov 22, 2003 3:06 am

adaware is best used with another program called spybot search and destroy...each one gets stuff the other will not detect...

http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?lang=en&page=download
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Postby Tet-chan » Sat Nov 22, 2003 5:39 am

The IE on my other PC is screwed.It always doesn't respond.
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Postby LorentzForce » Sat Nov 22, 2003 6:08 am

already have Google toolbar :D mhwa ha ha
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Postby vinci » Sun Nov 23, 2003 9:44 pm

Yes, it definetely is ad-ware. You'll have to search up the ad-ware yourself and delete it... I had the same incident. And it's still not fixed :D I surf the internet on Safe Mode for now lol.
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