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Garry Jones - 18 Feb 2005 00:11 GMT

Yahoo have hijacked my internet browser, running W98, MSIE 6.0.2800

If I mistype the website it enters my mistyped letters to
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p="mistypedletters"

The phrase search.yahoo.com is not found in the registry. How can I
reset this so that I can simply backspace and correct my spelling.

(I have not installed yahoo toolbar or any of their other junk, I
suspect it was trojaned in with another program install).

Thanks for any and all help in this matter.

Garry Jones
Sweden

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Aaron Liske - 21 Feb 2005 14:53 GMT

Hi,

A simple virus scan may help with this. (it did when my browser was
hijacked).

go to "www.lavasoft.de" download and install ad-aware personal and run it.
You may be surprised at what it finds.

Hope this helps,
Aaron Liske

> Yahoo have hijacked my internet browser, running W98, MSIE 6.0.2800
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> Garry Jones
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Frank Saunders, MS-MVP IE/OE - 22 Feb 2005 02:54 GMT

> Hi,
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>> Garry Jones
>> Sweden

Ad-Aware does not detect viruses. It detects adware and spyware.

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Sandi - Microsoft MVP - 26 Feb 2005 14:50 GMT

Disabling searching from address bar should be sufficient (IE tools,
internet options, advanced).

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> Yahoo have hijacked my internet browser, running W98, MSIE 6.0.2800
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