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Old 12-17-2003, 02:46 PM   #1
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internet explorer prob.

recently a bunch of ads have been getting threw my pop up blocker i using the google one, and recently whenever i open homepage it changes it to some search site one and makes some dumb search toolbar come up, i cant find it in add/remove programs, everytime the toolbar comes back, i ran adaware it found 40 things i deleted them and restarted comp. it still went to the search homepage and the toolbar came up, i ran adware again and now 60 things came up!! how can i get rid of this???
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Old 12-17-2003, 03:06 PM   #2
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Reboot...
Download Adaware...
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/col...id,1247,00.asp
install...update...run it...
Then go back to Spybot...make sure you update it, run the Immunize option to block what you can...and then run it again...
between the two you should route it out..
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Old 12-17-2003, 03:21 PM   #3
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Try this freebie as well:

http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads/spg/
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