re: Browser hijack Sunday, February 17, 2008 at 2:59 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Ricer46 (20220 messages posted) When you get a system that is that screwed up, the best bet is to do a clean install. On Sunday, February 17, 2008 at 2:51 pm, George Cowley wrote: >I was just handed a PC with 1017 viruses/malware/spyware items. My antivirus deleted >1017 viruses and the machine was virus free after the 4th sweep. I ran AdAware and >eliminated all the spyware. Then I put it online and did Microsoft updates. As soon >as I did, I had popup windows for hornywives or something similar and a few other >items. > >Where is this being triggered and how do I eliminate it? > Written in response to: Browser hijack (George Cowley: Sunday, February 17, 2008 at 2:51 pm) Responses to this message: re: Browser hijack (George Cowley: Sunday, February 17, 2008 at 3:01 pm) re: Browser hijack (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Monday, February 18, 2008 at 9:33 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Browser hijack (George Cowley: Sun, Feb 17, 2008, 2:51 pm) re: Browser hijack (Ricer46: Sun, Feb 17, 2008, 2:59 pm) re: Browser hijack (George Cowley: Sun, Feb 17, 2008, 3:01 pm) re: Browser hijack (Johnb33: Sun, Feb 17, 2008, 6:14 pm) re: Browser hijack (George Cowley: Mon, Feb 18, 2008, 9:49 am) re: Browser hijack (Johnb33: Mon, Feb 18, 2008, 10:46 am) re: Browser hijack (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Mon, Feb 18, 2008, 9:33 am) re: Browser hijack (George Cowley: Mon, Feb 18, 2008, 10:38 am) re: Browser hijack (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Mon, Feb 18, 2008, 2:45 pm) re: Browser hijack (George Cowley: Tue, Feb 19, 2008, 6:56 am) re: Browser hijack (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Tue, Feb 19, 2008, 7:29 am) re: Browser hijack (Ari: Tue, Feb 19, 2008, 9:06 am) re: Browser hijack (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Tue, Feb 19, 2008, 5:23 pm) re: Browser hijack (Ari: Tue, Feb 19, 2008, 6:12 pm) re: Browser hijack (George Cowley: Wed, Feb 20, 2008, 3:21 pm) re: Browser hijack (Ari: Sun, Feb 17, 2008, 6:56 pm) re: Browser hijack (Kevinh: Mon, Feb 18, 2008, 8:01 am) re: Browser hijack (George Cowley: Mon, Feb 18, 2008, 8:36 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum