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Originally posted by Johnny55
Sunshine, to answer your questions:
I've been installing a few things as I formatted my hard drive last week. There's nothing unfamilliar in add/remove programs though.
The homepage resets to: http://www.openarticles.info/ every couple of hours after I change it.
Never had Msg Plus on my pc either. I was lead here by this thread : http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=27393
Microway, Ive tried adaware and spybot and none of these seem to work either. If you read through the thread above, it says the only way to get rid is to uninstall and then reinstall msg plus. As I don't have that, I'm really struggling on how to remove this problem.
If you never had Plus! on your computer or formatted your HD afterwards then it's impossible that this is caused by Plus! sponsor, so indeed installing Plus! then removing again is not gonna solve your problem. As i said before allsorts can install adware/spyware, even visiting a website can. So as you can understand finding what exactly caused it is almost impossible (that's why i asked you to look through your installed programs list as sometimes they can be uninstalled from there).
Somehow i think coolfreesearch might be a variant of the wellknown browserhijacker CoolWebSearch. I advice you to download and run CWShredder, wich is available at
http://us.trendmicro.com/us/products/personal/CWShredder/
Another handy tool to run is
McAfee AVERT Stinger, this is a standalone tool wich you can run besides your AV program (it is in no way a substitute tho).
The programs mentioned before by MicroWay, AdAware and Spybot S&D, usually do the trick but as always if something has it's own uninstaller thats best used. Maybe the file was in use and it couldn't remove it...remember with above tools aswell, close down your browser (full exit) and if need be run them in safemode as you would do with a full virusscan (wich btw might not be a bad idea to do again aswell).
For future protection against these i advice you to get
SpywareBlaster, this works seperate or along with Spybot S&D's immunize feature.
Let me know how you get on with it.
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Originally posted by ahmetgns
So I am right. He is asking for help about something not related to Messenger Plus!.
So? No need to post a "i was right" post (i call this spam as it's not helping the OP in any way). Instead of the posts you've put in this thread you should have reported the first post with reason why and wich forum you think it belongs in. I'm replying to you here to tell you how you should handle these things..next time i'll just report your posts as spam.
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RE: coolfreesearch
I'll let you know the outcome.