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hijacked through real player
Name: danoj22 Date: April 12, 2004 at 12:17:42 Pacific OS: don't know CPU/Ram: don't know
Comment:
I was looking at some clips and listening to music the other day when everything started to be directed to a page called best-search. Well overnight this page hijacked my home page. I cannot search the web, no matter what i type into the browser it is directed to this page. I restored back as far as I could go which was only one day and it worked, however the program must have already been in place. Once again when I listen to a song or view a clip with real player it starts directing me to this page. It is just a matter of time before it takes over, this will be the third time. Should I just delete real one player from my system or is this thing still going to be there? I'm not totally computer savvy so any advice would be great.
Name: JohnO Date: April 12, 2004 at 16:44:57 Pacific
Reply:
The last Dell computer I bought came with Real Player installed. The very first thing I did was uninstall Real Player, THEN I got rid of the Dell crap. I've always heard that Real Player has/includes spyware. If I were you, I'd uninstall Real Player and see if the problem continues. It sounds like your browser is being hijacked, so if it does continue, download and run CWShredder. It worked once for me.
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Response Number 2
Name: Garfield Date: April 12, 2004 at 18:56:31 Pacific
Reply:
if you need to use realplayer then id strongly suggest u use realplayer alternative.. just google for it and it will come up.. read about it as im to lazy to explain =)
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