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Adware takes over browser home page and default search engine
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<blockquote data-quote="57FS" data-source="post: 178165" data-attributes="member: 20406"><p>In the process of downloading and installing Firefox, it appears that my son also said "yes" in installing a bunch of other programs, including something that is clearly adware. It appears to be executing some sort of script to change my home page to "feed.helpbar.com" which immediately re-directs to "<a href="http://www.browse-search.com" target="_blank">www.browse-search.com</a>". Initially it was throwing up a lot of pop-ups. I clamped down on the windows permissions, setting most of my "enable" switches to "prompt" for running scrips, activeX controls, cookies, and the like. This has dampened the activity somewhat but has not eliminated an "unknown program" from continuing the home page and search engine takeovers.</p><p></p><p>It just took a step up. It is now blocking my access to google, and seems to be forcing a firewall instruction to prevent chrome from getting to the internet - at least for some sites.</p><p></p><p>I ran the scanning tools mentioned in the instructions, but it didn't produce an "AdwCleaner" scan log that I can find.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="57FS, post: 178165, member: 20406"] In the process of downloading and installing Firefox, it appears that my son also said "yes" in installing a bunch of other programs, including something that is clearly adware. It appears to be executing some sort of script to change my home page to "feed.helpbar.com" which immediately re-directs to "[URL='http://www.browse-search.com']www.browse-search.com[/URL]". Initially it was throwing up a lot of pop-ups. I clamped down on the windows permissions, setting most of my "enable" switches to "prompt" for running scrips, activeX controls, cookies, and the like. This has dampened the activity somewhat but has not eliminated an "unknown program" from continuing the home page and search engine takeovers. It just took a step up. It is now blocking my access to google, and seems to be forcing a firewall instruction to prevent chrome from getting to the internet - at least for some sites. I ran the scanning tools mentioned in the instructions, but it didn't produce an "AdwCleaner" scan log that I can find. [/QUOTE]
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