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Browser Hijacker
Name: KrisCardona Date: January 7, 2005 at 20:36:34 Pacific OS: Windows XP SP1 CPU/Ram: Pentium 4 3.2 Ghz with HT
Comment:
I have a question...Will it hurt my computer if I leave a browser hijacker on Internet Explorer? I have tried everything under the sun to try and remove this but nothing works (Norton Antivirus 2004, Norton Internet Security 2004, Hijack This, McAfee Stinger, McAfee Spyware 2005, Spykiller 2005, Alert Spy, Spybot-Search and Destroy, Aluria's Spyware Eliminator, and the list goes on...). So I decided that if it does not hurt anything than I will just leave it on there. I use Mozilla Firefox as my browser now so it really is not that big of deal for me. At least my homepage is not a porn site on IE. It is www.searchzoomer.com which is a pretty decent search engine. But no other effects from the broswer hijacker except for the homepage changing have been found. Thanks
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Summary: Hello- I am yet another victim of browser hijacking and am stumped as to how to get rid of this virus. I already have Spybot and Adaware and Stinger and none of those applications were able to detect ...
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