PC help required - VERY annoying

[Safeway]

Some f***ing search thing has installed itself as my homepage. I've tried deleting all cookies and history of pages visited but nothing is working. Every time I log on it goes to that. Also when I'm browsing the internet now and again it randomly goes to some porn page or another search site. It's really PISSING me off.

I went to 'Add/Remove Programs' and there's a 'Search Assistant Uninstall' program but it won't let me uninstall.

If anyone's got any ideas please say because it's DOING MY HEAD IN.

Cheers.

 

[Marc]

go to the website of the serach thing, they usually have an uninstall util too download.
whats it called? if it has a name?

 

[Wozza]

From THE INTERNET via GOOGLE...

what I did was ran regedit (for those of you who don't know, it's: start->run->"regedit.exe") and then, starting at My Computer at the top, went to edit->find, typed in "Searchassistant" and then deleted all values and keys that contained that name. Finally, I ran AdAware to remove the last few bits. Crude, but I think it's worked.

 

[aftershavedave]

adaware or spybot will normally kill that crap...plus if you have norton or the like do a virus scan...or go to symantec.com for a remote scan

 

[cirC]

go here
https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/ehowes/www/resource.htm
read & install most things that you see also go to www.cnet.com then at top of page click d/ls then in search box type in winpatrol & d/l that.
Also on 1st link follow the links to other info sites and post the / there

 

[bhaexpress]

As afters says it does sound like Spyware. Down load Adawhere or Spybot from 'www.download.com'.

 

[timco]

Its called browser hijacking and it is a viral spyware a others have said.

http://www.spywareinfo.com/articles/hijacked/
to learn about it.

 

[Kryten]

Got thaat on My computer, very annoying. I just disabkled it, but it does come back every month

 

[Shizuoka Dolphin]

Or stop going to PORN SITES and downloading dodgy stuff.

Prevention is better than cure.

 

[T.J.]

Had the same problem recently,very annoying.The trouble was it got in and messed up my Norton Security.Tried restoring my computer to an earlier date but found that it had attached itself to run when my computer started up.Don't know much about computers so i got someone i know to take it back to what it was like when i first got it.Now have Spybot and this has helped.

 

[Safeway]

Or stop going to PORN SITES and downloading dodgy stuff.

Prevention is better than cure.

Cheers everyone ELSE. I'll see what I can do.

 

[Baron Von Thunderclap]

try http://www.lavasoft.de/ and click ad-aware personal on the left...

 

[Cian]

http://www.getfirefox.com

Stop using IE - its insecure, out of date and slow. Firefox is the here and now of browsers. IE is dying, its already in intensive care.

 

[Little Piggy]

Also when I'm browsing the internet now and again it randomly goes to some porn page

Yeah yeah yeah...

 

[Kryten]

http://www.spywareguide.com/product_show.php?id=629

at least its not a big threat

 

[bhaexpress]

http://www.getfirefox.com

Stop using IE - its insecure, out of date and slow. Firefox is the here and now of browsers. IE is dying, its already in intensive care.

Funny you should mention Firefox, I've just installed it. Since I put on XP SP2 I can only run one IE browser at a time. I reported it to Billy the Gates and they just told me to take off the IE pop up stopper which I already have done. I told and it's a quiet as a Palace home crowd.

I like Firefox thus far, seems quicker than IE too.