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I seem to be having a problem. Whenever I go online to a webpage I've been before, (Like the MB, for example) I get a window (Sometimes several) of a mywebsearch search, with "üã\nºà '¦*ùž8Ÿ%g6æe+Z+." Typed in. Why is this happening, and can I disable it?
 
Sounds like Adware. Ouch. Try using ad-aware, or any other adware guards/removers. I myself never recieving adware know little about the different scanners, but ad-aware comes up first in Google for Adware removal. Best of luck.
Of course, ignore my message if it happens to be something other then adware.
 
Speedylizzard14 said:
I seem to be having a problem. Whenever I go online to a webpage I've been before, (Like the MB, for example) I get a window (Sometimes several) of a mywebsearch search, with "üã\nºà '¦*ùž8Ÿ%g6æe+Z+." Typed in. Why is this happening, and can I disable it?
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I've had worse. There once was some pop up with a fake virus scan animation, that said I had 80 - something viruses. Then, it would prompt me to download some virus software to get rid of the "Viruses."

D:

And yes, it is probably adware.
 
There are several things I need to know before being able to help you.
1. Did you ever download Cursormania?
2. Did you download the Mywebsearch toolbar.

If both are yes then go to control panel in your start menu.
Once it loads then you have to click Programs in the control panel.
Once in programs, you have to click installed programs.
When installed programs opens up scroll down until you find mywebsearch or cursormania.
After found then right-click the app and select uninstall. If mywebsearch is still there then do the following.
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In internet explorer go to options and select Manage Add-ons.
When in there select mywebsearch and select disable.

This is the Spiritdragons computer help desk and I am always here to lend a hand in computer problems.
 
More to the point, why anyone would be stupid enough to install an IE toolbar at this point? Basically all of them infect you with something annoying.
 
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Mystic, not all IE toolbars are stupidly installed. Meanwhile not using it, I'm sure that some people use a search (Google,Yahoo,NO, ETC.) toolbar for everyday needs. However, there are some toolbars that obviously shouldn't be installed, free cursors/screensavers? Just stay away from toolbars that promote things that are trivial.
And yes, Shameless advertising is frowned upon by the administrators.
 
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whoatefred said:
I'm sure that some people use a search (Google,Yahoo,NO, ETC.) toolbar for everyday needs.
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There is absolutely no justification for this. Firefox introduced the search bar, which effectively deprecates all these useless third party toolbars. Internet Explorer now has the search bar too, so there's no reason to rely on crap like the Yahoo Toolbar anymore. At this point they just duplicate features that already come standard in the web browser.

Here's how Firefox does searching:

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Basically, way better than IE's toolbars. If you're still relying on IE toolbars to search the web, you're living in the past.

Oh, and you can use this to get more search engines for Firefox's search bar (in a safe, reliable, clean way that doesn't involve any kind of spyware, and supports just about every site out there): http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engines.html
 
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whoatefred said:
Mystic, not all IE toolbars are stupidly installed. Meanwhile not using it, I'm sure that some people use a search (Google,Yahoo,NO, ETC.) toolbar for everyday needs. However, there are some toolbars that obviously shouldn't be installed, free cursors/screensavers? Just stay away from toolbars that promote things that are trivial.
And yes, Shameless advertising is frowned upon by the administrators.
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Did you forget WOT? (Web Of Trust)
It blocks you from dangerous sites like youareanidiot . org
 
whoatefred said:
Mystic, not all IE toolbars are stupidly installed. Meanwhile not using it, I'm sure that some people use a search (Google,Yahoo,NO, ETC.) toolbar for everyday needs. However, there are some toolbars that obviously shouldn't be installed, free cursors/screensavers? Just stay away from toolbars that promote things that are trivial.
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Toolbars are unnecessary. The only Toolbar I've ever used was Google's old Toolbar for its pop-up blocker. Considering every browser has a built-in pop-up blocker at this point, I see no reason why anyone would need to install something like that.

Also, all of those toolbars are spyware in some form or another. Some of them are malicious, some of them are harmless, but the fact of the matter is they all spy on some of your browsing habits and send data back. I suggest you update your copy of IE or try another browser (Firefox, Opera, etc.) so you don't need such security vulnerabilities installed.
 
Okay it stopped, but I can't open up ANY web browser in my user.

(I'm using a guest user)

EDIT: System Restore fixed it. :)
 
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