re: Browser hijack Monday, February 18, 2008 at 8:01 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Kevinh (237 messages posted) Did you turn off system restore before running the AV and anti spyware, if you didn't then you will get it all back when you reboot. 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: Monday, February 18, 2008 at 8:36 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