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Clicking search results cause popup
Name: Emmett_K Date: February 5, 2009 at 05:21:32 Pacific OS: Windows XP Pro SP3 Subcategory: Spyware
Comment:
I've managed to download some sort of adware I think. Any time I click on any search results from a search engine (mostly google) it causes a random popup page to come up.
I've ran lavasoft's ad-aware and it found a number of browser hijacker's and I removed them, but that doesn't seemed to have helped.
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