Shoutbox

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Originally posted by Sirby
Anyway, I had to completely uninstall firefox, deleting profile in the hidden appdata folders as well, and had to start with a fresh install just to get things back to normal.  You may want to look into that or have fun explaining to people in the help section, that seems to be the only way to get their settings back to normal.

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With all respect, and no matter how much I dislike malware too, but I have posted some instructions on how to completely remove the browser searchbar, homepage and word search in browsers. Nothing complicated and it is in fact very logical (it is just the same as if you would add another search engine of your choice, but then the other way around of course). Nothing involves completely uninstalling the browser since the offending stuff are just one or two browser settings you need to change, nothing more nothing less.

PS: Completely formatting your computer would have worked too in that regards, or even buying a new computer.

To be honest, as a computer technician having access to "government powered erasers" (whatever that is), this is something I'd expect you to know. Also the sentence "I even uninstalled the sponsor program from the control panel" puzzles me a bit because you let it seem like you are a knowledgable computer technician but at the same time it's like you're saying you're very surprised that in order to uninstall a program you need to go to the control panel>add/remove programs. Thus, no matter how bad your experience might have been or still is, some stuff you say doesn't quite add up though. (note: I'm not saying you haven't experienced all what you said though)

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Anyways,

I strongly ask to those who have installed Plus!, have unchecked the sponsor boxes and finding that sponsor stuff is still installed, to:

1. Install or use a network sniffer, or install something like LiveHTTPHeaders plugin for Firefox, or HTTPWatch or something similar.
   (important: it must be run from your location though, thus from your computer, thus no internet based http header viewers).
   
2. clear your browser cache completely
   
3. re-download the Messenger Plus! setup file (<-- use this link) and check in the HTTP response code viewer of your choice where the link http://www.msgplus.net/DownloadMsgPlus.aspx is finally redirected to (= the 'Location' field in the code 200-response) and tell us this link so we can check it further.

(note you do not need to install Plus! for this, just start the download; you can even cancel it once it is downloading if you want)

thanks