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ok i have these three porn links that keep reappearing in my favourites, and i didnt place them there
i cleared cache, cookies, temp. internet files, ran adaware and nortons

― anthony easton (anthony), Monday, 14 July 2003 06:52 (twenty-three years ago)

You need to get someone to check your registry for suspect registry keys, I believe. (or buy a mac, or run linux)

― Ed (dali), Monday, 14 July 2003 06:56 (twenty-three years ago)

i have checked registry keys, ad aware does that.
and i do need a mac.
wanna buy me one?

― anthony easton (anthony), Monday, 14 July 2003 07:27 (twenty-three years ago)

have a look round the excellent VMyths. YOu might find more info there. To date I have not heard of spyware for the mac. I sure it can be done but there are less macs so spyware is less productive and its harder to find machines to infect.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 14 July 2003 08:21 (twenty-three years ago)

This: http://security.kolla.de/ catches lots of stuff that adaware misses.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Monday, 14 July 2003 08:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Clearly you're waking up in the middle of the night to seek out and bookmark porn in your sleep, the way some people sleepwalk.

― Dr. Chardstone, Monday, 14 July 2003 18:14 (twenty-three years ago)

I will second Dan's suggestion, I use it on my PC and it's great. Simple download, it finds problems, tells you about them, and then will fix with your okay.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 14 July 2003 18:22 (twenty-three years ago)

I had something hijacking my IE search function for ages, and AdAware and Spybot couldn't find it. Finally someone pointed me to Hijack This which found it right away. A lot of the stuff it comes up with isn't bad -- the key is to scan through the list and delete all the stuff with porno or otherwise suspect URLs.

Also it brightens your teeth, prevents prostate cancer etc.

― brooke edel (brookedel), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 03:46 (twenty-three years ago)

and is an interesting shade of mauve.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 13:07 (twenty-three years ago)

ten months pass...

I have just run Hijack this and Spybot in order to get rid of whatever it is that is infecting my IE homepage setting and launching anti spyware pop-ups when I start IE. They have not worked. They both found a whole load of stuff and I deleted the bits that looked dodgy but to no avail. Can anyone help?

― hmmm (hmmm), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 14:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't but I do have exactly the same problem so I'm bumping this up the new answers page in the hope someone can.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 21:05 (twenty-two years ago)

do some web searches for the offending site or url +spyware etc. , maybe you'll come up with some removal tips

― ron (ron), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 22:52 (twenty-two years ago)

is soulseek spyware proof?

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 22:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Go post your Hijack This log at http://www.cexx.org and they'll help you out.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 20 May 2004 07:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Ok, will do. Thanks.

― hmmm (hmmm), Thursday, 20 May 2004 07:21 (twenty-two years ago)

there is also a free check done by 'noadware' but you have to register and pay to have it removed once located. However, I found the nasties by using their scan, and then went into the registry, deleted their stuff. It worked.

― donna (donna), Thursday, 20 May 2004 07:32 (twenty-two years ago)

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