Vic
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Post by Vic on Dec 11, 2003 13:21:45 GMT -5
Hey, first i gotta say i love the board!  This is really weird and i was just wondering if anyone else has this. My home computer is fine. But, when i sign on this board from work it always resets my homepage to www.searchwww.com. I always have to reset it manually. Sure enough, i would visit the board again and it changes again. it only happens with this board. Anyone? |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2003 13:25:52 GMT -5
No.
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Post by Matt4319 on Dec 11, 2003 15:08:45 GMT -5
Sounds like a problem with your work computer.
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Post by BFMR on Dec 11, 2003 23:27:41 GMT -5
i sorta get some spyware, but i wouldn't say it was from this board... maybe the computer you are using actually has a dialer (connects all the sites you visit, have visited to a main server) which needs to be removed immediately
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Post by Vic on Dec 12, 2003 12:35:42 GMT -5
Ok thanks. will do. it just seems to happen when i visit here. strange.
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Post by joffre on Dec 22, 2003 21:57:30 GMT -5
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Post by j on Jan 2, 2004 13:15:07 GMT -5
Doesn't work for me, unfortunately. My homepage still resets to coolsearch. :'( |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2004 13:21:57 GMT -5
ouch... Cool Search is going to be a real pain in the a :o :o to get out of your computer. Just keep searching through your files for it and keep deleting them. That's what I did when I got spyware. It took a few weeks but they eventually went away for good. Sometimes they won't delete and your best bet is to look for an uninstaller and if you can't find one online, rename the file to something without an extension and try to delete it.
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Post by j on Jan 2, 2004 15:31:47 GMT -5
You had it too?!!
HELP ME!!
What files do I look for? And it can be rid of by just deleting the files a few times?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2004 15:36:26 GMT -5
You had it too?!! HELP ME!! What files do I look for? And it can be rid of by just deleting the files a few times? The problem with spyware is that it basically duplicates. One program will download another. So what I did was I went through my hard drives and deleted anything that I didn't recognize. You may have to do this several times over the next month but it will keep more spyware from downloading. |
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Post by j on Jan 2, 2004 15:42:37 GMT -5
That's a little risky unless you're extremely familiar with what files are necessary and which ones aren't. I Googled for an uninstaller like you said and found one. www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/cwshredder.zip Hope it works. I'll find out the next time I reboot. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2004 15:44:54 GMT -5
Even if it uninstalls Cool Search, you may still have spyware. The folder where all the vital files are is the Windows file. As long as that folder isn't infected, you should be fine if you know what to delete.
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Post by j on Jan 2, 2004 16:00:37 GMT -5
I'ma hopin' Spybot and AdAware 6 takes care of the rest.
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Post by EvanJ on Jan 3, 2004 19:32:20 GMT -5
I got spyware. It changed my homepage to MSN. I changed it back and it hasn't bothered me since.
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Post by strong4PMB! on Jan 3, 2004 19:59:04 GMT -5
I've never gotten Spyware from a Proboard before. It's usually from pop-up ads.
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Post by Devil Marlena Nylund on Jan 4, 2004 14:02:35 GMT -5
I got spyware. It changed my homepage to MSN. I changed it back and it hasn't bothered me since. |
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Post by EvanJ on Jan 4, 2004 23:06:08 GMT -5
I didn't reinstall anything. The computer restarted telling me how to get rid of spyware but it froze.
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Post by j on Jan 5, 2004 2:47:32 GMT -5
Sounds to me like you reinstalled Internet Explorer.... LOL... maybe the spyware reinstalled a new version of IE for him. |
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Post by EvanJ on Jan 5, 2004 12:43:58 GMT -5
I don't remember there being any changes to Internet Explorer.
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Post by Libra on Jan 13, 2004 21:25:06 GMT -5
Does quarantining files that are spyware do any good?
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Post by j on Jan 13, 2004 21:30:45 GMT -5
Not sure. I think it disables them but allows you to replace the files should they turn out to be necessary for something else to function. Like a Recycle Bin?
I usually just delete the files.
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Post by crash46 on Jan 13, 2004 23:40:21 GMT -5
Well some spyware isn't just files, it messes around with your registry. I had the orbitexplorer spyware on my computer, which caused a popup everytime I got a page that couldn't be displayed, and I had to dig deep into the computer to get that out. So deleting or moving the files may not solve the problem.
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Post by j on Jan 14, 2004 9:04:11 GMT -5
Doesn't Ad-Aware scan the registry too? They'll delete that particular file/line in the registry and then you'd get this annoying warning everytime you reboot that tells you so-and-so file is missing from the registry.
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Post by Libra on Jan 16, 2004 11:44:51 GMT -5
Doesn't Ad-Aware scan the registry too? They'll delete that particular file/line in the registry and then you'd get this annoying warning everytime you reboot that tells you so-and-so file is missing from the registry. Based on that analysis, I would say it does - I've had that come up. |
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Post by reception on Apr 18, 2004 6:32:59 GMT -5
It turns out I had spyware as soon as I installed my new hard drive.
I downloaded something called CWShredder v1.56.2. It seems to work well for me. Slowly my computer is getting back to normal.
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Post by Devil Marlena Nylund on Apr 18, 2004 14:06:12 GMT -5
I'm getting my new harddrive installed and it should be ready tomorrow as soon as I get my new power supply. Luckily, I don't have internet on that computer. Heh...
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Post by Bob on Apr 20, 2004 8:58:03 GMT -5
get a Macintosh-- we don't have these problems
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Post by George Tropicana on Apr 20, 2004 17:06:24 GMT -5
CoolSearch sucks. I want to go burn down their building.
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Post by j on Apr 20, 2004 21:25:41 GMT -5
CoolSearch sucks. I want to go burn down their building. Everything you say can and may be used against you in a court of law. |
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Post by George Tropicana on Apr 21, 2004 12:13:59 GMT -5
They'll be in trouble for starting it.
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