-=PCTechTalk=- Re: "runsearch" invasion!!
- From: Glen <glbbrown@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2003 10:19:44 -0700 (PDT)
This must be a new one.
I checked with google, lavasoft, spybot, cnet, zdnet,
techtv, symantec....
All nothing...
I don't know what to say....
Glen
--- Drummer <drummers@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all...
>
> Got invaded by a program called "runsearch.com" I
> don't understand why these
> idiots do this stuff; don't they realize all of the
> ill will they create for
> themselves by setting up this invasive crap? I
> consider it as insulting an
> offense as a virus, and will never, ever use their
> garbage!!
>
> Anyway, this $%*&^ runsearch.com has inserted itself
> as my only IE search
> engine available in the Explorer Bar... And it also
> replaced my IE home page
> with itself.
>
> I was able to restore the IE (5.0) "Use as current"
> home page to what I
> originally had by resetting it in the appropriate
> Internet Tools box, so at
> least IE again opens to where I want it to. But the
> "Use default" home page
> box has runsearch.com in it now, and I cannot seem
> to get rid of it there?
>
> So:
> 1] I have runsearch.com as my IE "Default home
> page". How do I get rid of
> it?
>
> 2] runsearch.com has become the only search engine
> in the IE Explorer Bar
> settings. How do I get rid of it?
>
> 3] And how come, when I do a "Find files or folders"
> lookup for "runsearch',
> it finds nothing?!!
>
> Thanks,
> greywoulf
>
>
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