Posted: 2/24/2013 1:30:32 PM EDT
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My sammich maker downloaded some shit on my computer. Well what ever she downloaded had a browers app attached(im guessing) I uninstalled it but it's still fucking my browser. I reinstalled Firefox, but it is still showing this fucking search engine bar for some knock off google companie. Anytime I open a new window this BS search engine company defaults to their search page. How do I get rid of this fucking thing?
ETA: Search Results LLC is the fucking company that Im talking about |
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If it's not malicious, I would do the following: Start > Control Panel > Programs and Features Let the list populate and go through it one-by-one to see if you can find the offending program and remove it. The search engine hijacks generally install themselves as a legit program and aren't there to screw up your computer. Annoy you, yes, but not mess you up. If it is a malicious hijack, start with the free version of Malwarebytes and run a complete scan. I'd recommend that in any case. [ETA] I just checked, and that program should uninstall as I outlined. |
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Step 1: Un-install firefox Step 2: Ctrl+alt+delete / Make sure program is not running in task manager Step 3: Download Opera What is Opera? Dude, just take the fucking thing to a tech shop, you are fucking doomed from the start if you think you can do a DIY..... 
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If it's not malicious, I would do the following: Start > Control Panel > Programs and Features Let the list populate and go through it one-by-one to see if you can find the offending program and remove it. The search engine hijacks generally install themselves as a legit program and aren't there to screw up your computer. Annoy you, yes, but not mess you up. If it is a malicious hijack, start with the free version of Malwarebytes and run a complete scan. I'd recommend that in any case. I have the pay for malwarebytes, I uninstalled anything that was downloaded yesterday by using the sort by date function in the uninstall programs/ control panel I looked for anything that I software I dont recognize. This thing is piggy backing off something and is annoying as hell. |
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Step 1: Un-install firefox Step 2: Ctrl+alt+delete / Make sure program is not running in task manager Step 3: Download Opera What is Opera? Dude, just take the fucking thing to a tech shop, you are fucking doomed from the start if you think you can do a DIY.....
Dude im fucking in school to be a Cisco engineer, ill figure it out. |
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Quoted: Quoted: If it's not malicious, I would do the following: Start > Control Panel > Programs and Features Let the list populate and go through it one-by-one to see if you can find the offending program and remove it. The search engine hijacks generally install themselves as a legit program and aren't there to screw up your computer. Annoy you, yes, but not mess you up. If it is a malicious hijack, start with the free version of Malwarebytes and run a complete scan. I'd recommend that in any case. I have the pay for malwarebytes, I uninstalled anything that was downloaded yesterday by using the sort by date function in the uninstall programs/ control panel I looked for anything that I software I dont recognize. This thing is piggy backing off something and is annoying as hell. You didn't see SearchResults LLC in the Programs and Features list? Weird... |
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If it's not malicious, I would do the following: Start > Control Panel > Programs and Features Let the list populate and go through it one-by-one to see if you can find the offending program and remove it. The search engine hijacks generally install themselves as a legit program and aren't there to screw up your computer. Annoy you, yes, but not mess you up. If it is a malicious hijack, start with the free version of Malwarebytes and run a complete scan. I'd recommend that in any case. I have the pay for malwarebytes, I uninstalled anything that was downloaded yesterday by using the sort by date function in the uninstall programs/ control panel I looked for anything that I software I dont recognize. This thing is piggy backing off something and is annoying as hell. You didn't see SearchResults LLC in the Programs and Features list? Weird... I did and I uninstalled it, it's still showing up. It's got to be piggy backed on something else. I keep my laptop very clean and basic. I recognize all the other sotware/publishers. ETA Search bar is still showing up, just it is not showing up in my add/remove programs on the control panel. Weird....I really dont want to have to go into my registry files and start fucking around in there....YET |
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Quoted: I did and I uninstalled it, it's still showing up. It's got to be piggy backed on something else. I keep my laptop very clean and basic. I recognize all the other sotware/publishers. ETA Search bar is still showing up, just it is not showing up in my add/remove programs on the control panel. Weird....I really dont want to have to go into my registry files and start fucking around in there....YET Check to see if it's listed in the add-ons of Firefox. If so, remove it there too and then reboot. The executable may be in memory and won't go away until you reboot. |
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If it's not malicious, I would do the following: Start > Control Panel > Programs and Features Let the list populate and go through it one-by-one to see if you can find the offending program and remove it. The search engine hijacks generally install themselves as a legit program and aren't there to screw up your computer. Annoy you, yes, but not mess you up. If it is a malicious hijack, start with the free version of Malwarebytes and run a complete scan. I'd recommend that in any case. I have the pay for malwarebytes, I uninstalled anything that was downloaded yesterday by using the sort by date function in the uninstall programs/ control panel I looked for anything that I software I dont recognize. This thing is piggy backing off something and is annoying as hell. You didn't see SearchResults LLC in the Programs and Features list? Weird... I did and I uninstalled it, it's still showing up. It's got to be piggy backed on something else. I keep my laptop very clean and basic. I recognize all the other sotware/publishers. ETA Search bar is still showing up, just it is not showing up in my add/remove programs on the control panel. Weird....I really dont want to have to go into my registry files and start fucking around in there....YET Had to do this to fix mine. You can easily modify the procedure for your malware. |
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I did and I uninstalled it, it's still showing up. It's got to be piggy backed on something else. I keep my laptop very clean and basic. I recognize all the other sotware/publishers. ETA Search bar is still showing up, just it is not showing up in my add/remove programs on the control panel. Weird....I really dont want to have to go into my registry files and start fucking around in there....YET Check to see if it's listed in the add-ons of Firefox. If so, remove it there too and then reboot. The executable may be in memory and won't go away until you reboot. Running a Malware scan now, then if its still there Ill reboot after a Cache files dump. It doent show up on the add-ons list, that was one of the first things I checked. |
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Sounds like your browser was hijacked.
Here's the link from Microsoft on how to fix it: http://www.microsoft.com/security/resources/hijacking-whatis.aspx |
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Sounds like your browser was hijacked. Here's the link from Microsoft on how to fix it: http://www.microsoft.com/security/resources/hijacking-whatis.aspx Yeah, that sounds right. The link you provided is only for IE not Mozilla. |
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Malwarebytes is free and does one hell of a job. I know I have the pay for version of it. I have no idea what she downloaded last night she was drinking when she did it Was she on da webcams?  Serioulsy dude, im not in the fucking mood for this kinda shit right now. Im kinda pissed trying to figure this shit out. |
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Reboot in to safemode command prompt. Run MBAM full scan. Reboot in to safe mode. Check your msconfig > startup list for malicious items. Check your Control Panel > Programs and Features for malicious items. You can run MBAM again at this point just to be safe. Then reboot in to normal mode and see if the problem still exists. If MBAM doesn't find anything in safe mode command prompt or it doesn't completely remove the malware then you can try running System Restore from safe mode command prompt and find a point at least a week before the point when the file was likely downloaded. You'll need some general knowledge of how to navigate to directories and execute files from cmd but that's easy stuff. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Malwarebytes is free and does one hell of a job. I know I have the pay for version of it. I have no idea what she downloaded last night she was drinking when she did it Was she on da webcams? Serioulsy dude, im not in the fucking mood for this kinda shit right now. Im kinda pissed trying to figure this shit out. Serious answer. Make sure your backups are good ( you are backing up, right?) and reinstall the whole OS after formatting the disk. If it is malware, It could leave remnants no matter how well you think you've removed it. You need to nuke it from orbit and kill it with fire for some of this shit. This is one of the reasons why I switched my whole extended family to Macs. They're not impervious to malware, but they're damn near close. I no longer had the desire to fix windows pcs every single holiday or visit.
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Serioulsy dude, im not in the fucking mood for this kinda shit right now. Im kinda pissed trying to figure this shit out.
Reboot Press F8 (sometimes F12) for Safe Mode ETA: Quoted:
- Generally I'd remove anything that had a blank space that usually shows the "author" or w/e.
Check your msconfig > startup list for malicious items. Uninstall FireFox Find the Programs Folder Directory for FireFox and delete it Run Malwarebytes, and run a deep scan Open Antivirus, if AVG schedule a scan of boot files Redownload and reinstall Firefox Run it If you have CC cleaner use that to clean up the registry and misc junk files. |
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Malwarebytes is free and does one hell of a job. I know I have the pay for version of it. I have no idea what she downloaded last night she was drinking when she did it Was she on da webcams? Serioulsy dude, im not in the fucking mood for this kinda shit right now. Im kinda pissed trying to figure this shit out. Serious answer. Make sure your backups are good ( you are backing up, right?) and reinstall the whole OS after formatting the disk. If it is malware, It could leave remnants no matter how well you think you've removed it. You need to nuke it from orbit and kill it with fire for some of this shit. This is one of the reasons why I switched my whole extended family to Macs. They're not impervious to malware, but they're damn near close. I no longer had the desire to fix windows pcs every single holiday or visit. I dont save anything on my laptop(I save everything online or drives), I just hate having to delete lines in my regestry. I've had nightmare problems doing that shit in the past. |
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Scan came back clean, cleared all browser cache files, rebooted and it came back. Uninstalled Mozilla and reinstalled it via IE explore and it's gone. Thanks guys no Idea what it was but im back to normal now.
ETA now you continue back with regular scheduled shinnanigans and pics of woman shit ETAA: Im thinking because I did not remove the original Firefox and just downloaded FF19 something must have been piggybacking in the Registry files, once I did a complete uninstall and then redownloaded it, it was back to normal. |
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Quoted: Scan came back clean, cleared all browser cache files, rebooted and it came back. Uninstalled Mozilla and reinstalled it via IE explore and it's gone. Thanks guys no Idea what it was but im back to normal now. ETA now you continue back with regular scheduled shinnanigans and pics of woman shit ETAA: Im thinking because I did not remove the original Firefox and just downloaded FF19 something must have been piggybacking in the Registry files, once I did a complete uninstall and then redownloaded it, it was back to normal. From Google Go to Control Panel\Programs and Features, find two programs called "Default Tab" and "Default Tab chrome," both by Search Results, LLC. Close the browser and re-open it, the search box should be gone. |
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Scan came back clean, cleared all browser cache files, rebooted and it came back. Uninstalled Mozilla and reinstalled it via IE explore and it's gone. Thanks guys no Idea what it was but im back to normal now. ETA now you continue back with regular scheduled shinnanigans and pics of woman shit ETAA: Im thinking because I did not remove the original Firefox and just downloaded FF19 something must have been piggybacking in the Registry files, once I did a complete uninstall and then redownloaded it, it was back to normal. From Google Go to Control Panel\Programs and Features, find two programs called "Default Tab" and "Default Tab chrome," both by Search Results, LLC. Close the browser and re-open it, the search box should be gone. I got it fixed but thanks guys |
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Yeah, those browser hijacks that get installed with other programs are a PITA. You have to be real careful with just about anything nowadays. Even the Java update has a default to install some goofy search tool. Yeah, real pain in the ass that one was. Thanks Zhukov, for the help. I really hate messing with registry files but thought I was gonna have to go there. |
