a few days ago I recieved an offline message from one of my friends in my contact list which contained a link . I OPENED IT. Now I dunno what to do there is this stupid search engine installed on my windows and I can not get rid of it. Believe me I tried so many virus killers. I uninstalled it so many times and i searched in my C Drive for any auto installation file for this and I found so many in so many subfolders. I deleted all of them. But unfortunately every time I turn off my PC and then back on it starts from the beggining as I did othing to remove it!!!
I am so exhusted. It opens so many iexplorers with spam sites which I hate as it slows down my PC !
The name of thesearch engine is :
Toolbar 888
or the search accelator (Adware .... [something] .. )
I hate it. Please help me how to remove this stupid thing from my windows ...
Cheers!
2006-10-09 08:24:55 · 8 answers · asked by i_am_lost_in_a_dream 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
[EDIT]
Toolbar 888
Ucmore - The search accelerator
2006-10-09 08:28:12 · update #1
Try some of these:
Spyware, Adware, Trojans, Malware, Dialers, Popups:
http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-SE-Personal-Edition/3003-8022_4-10399602.html?tag=tab_rev
http://www.ewido.net/en/download/
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
http://www.download.com/Bazooka-Adware-and-Spyware-Scanner/3000-8022-10247782.html
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/sgdownload.html
http://www.safer-networking.org/
http://www.download.com/HijackThis/3000-8022_4-10379544.html
http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/download/
Online Scanners:
http://www.webroot.com/consumer/products/spysweeper/freescan.html?
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx
http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/activescan.htm
http://www.bitdefender.com/scan8/ie.html
http://www.windowsecurity.com/trojanscan/
http://www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner
http://www.spywareguide.com/onlinescan.php
http://housecall65.trendmicro.com/
Spyware, Adware, Trojans, Malware, Dialers, Popups Lists:
http://www.softpedia.com/catList/104
http://www.download.com/Adware-Spyware-Removal/3150-8022_4-0.html?tag=dir
http://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads31.html
http://www.filehippo.com/software/antispyware/setarea
http://www.soft32.com/s/Windows/Security/AntiSpyware/3-9-0-0.html
Antivirus:
http://www.grisoft.com/
http://www.avast.com/
http://www.free-av.com/
Antivirus Lists:
http://www.softpedia.com/catList/1
http://www.download.com/Antivirus/3150-2239_4-0.html?tag=dir
http://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads29.html
http://www.filehippo.com/software/antivirus/
http://www.soft32.com/s/Windows/Security/Antivirus/3-1-0-0.html
Firewall:
http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/znalm/freeDownload.jsp?dc=12bms&ctry=US&lang=en&lid=staticcomp_za
Firewall Lists:
http://www.softpedia.com/catList/97
http://www.download.com/Firewalls/3150-10435_4-0.html?tag=dir
http://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads34.html
http://www.filehippo.com/software/firewalls/
http://www.soft32.com/s/Windows/Security/Firewalls/3-5-0-0.html
IP Blocker:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/peerguardian/pg2-050918-nt.exe?download
Browser:
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/
Email, News, RSS:
http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/
System Cleaner:
http://www.ccleaner.com/
System Cleaning List:
http://www.softpedia.com/catList/98
http://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads12.html
http://www.filehippo.com/software/cleaning/
System Info:
http://www.softpedia.com/catList/92
http://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads9.html
http://www.soft32.com/s/Windows/System_Utilities/System_Tools/3-50-0-0.html
2006-10-09 20:27:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-08-24 09:33:35 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It may be adware/spyware.
Install Windows Defender. It is a Anti Spyware/ Adware program. Run a scan. If any Adware is found it will give you the steps on how to get rid of it.
2006-10-09 08:34:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
With friends like that, who needs enemies? That same thing happened to me and I also wasted many hours trying to get back to normal. I finally had to reinstall Windows which deleted everything and started over. The downside of that was I had to reinstall everything I had downloaded from day 1. However, I learned from that experience just to stay on safe sites and not to go to weird sites nor click on unknown links.
Luckily, I have cable because everything downloaded and installed very quickly. Prior to that, downloading took forever with dial up. Sorry for your problems.
2006-10-09 08:41:35 · answer #4 · answered by phoenixheat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you tried housecall? It is a free scan that (usually) gets rid of all viruses spware etc. If not , ah well, swallow your pride and reinstall windows. Good luck!
2006-10-09 08:34:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
go to download .com dowload adware personal install it scan and get rid of any problem
2006-10-09 08:36:24 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is better just to re-install windows, these will clear everything on your pc so be sure to back up anyfiles you want to save.
2006-10-09 08:33:07 · answer #7 · answered by exile 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.adwarealert.com/index.php?hop=advanced99&p=3&gid=1072645447&oid=&aid=
2006-10-09 08:32:26 · answer #8 · answered by People4peace 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋