hello, a friend of mine got his pc hijacked by `whatsfind` and he found an uninstall file in their page: http://www.whatsfind.com/un-install.exe this is the page: http://www.whatsfind.com/terms.html everything seems to be working fine, no more hijacked pages, no suspicious activity (my friend's claims)... but it didn't make sense to me when a #$@$#@ hijacker creator put an uninstall EXE file without trying to get something :D anyone knows anything about this? :) every opinion will be greatly appreciated :) thank you

Remember you where hijacked to them by someone else, not by them.

hmm... it is possible (although it still a little not making sense to me though)... ^_^ it's possible if this `whatsfind` is having somekind of `referral system`, then it's the referrals who does the hijacking? is that what you mean? anyone knows "exactly" what did that un-install.exe files do? does it really cleaning them all or it have some `side effect` :D thank you

The way it works is that sites are paid by how many people are sent to that site. It's called pay per click. So the best way to get people to go to a site is hijack them. In other words, give them no choice other than going to the site. You will find that most sites that you are hijacked too have uninstaller available. I wouldn't trust them all. I run them on a protected machine and also on an unprotected one before I would recommend it.