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Acen
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Mystartsearch

Postby Acen » Sun Oct 19, 2014 9:05 am

Hi all

Im not sure how ive managed it but a program called mystartsearch has hijacked my internet browers.

Both criome and IE have this browser as my homepage ENEN though ive tried to delete and change on as per normal.

ive uninstalled all that was installed yesterday but i cant get rid of this.

even when i set as defaut google.com as default it keeps coming back.

any ideas how to get rid of this for good???

thanks

a
ps i believe i installed as part of a program to watch videos as i got message sating i had to to continue to watch xvid programs.

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Re: Mystartsearch

Postby Enrique » Sun Oct 19, 2014 9:32 am

Hi Acen,
You need Adwcleaner to sort out hijacked Browsers..............how to......

http://general-changelog-team.fr/en/tut ... download-a

Download from here....................see its version 4.0 now......

https://toolslib.net/downloads/viewdown ... dwcleaner/
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Re: Mystartsearch

Postby satandpcguy » Sun Oct 19, 2014 11:05 am

And check your icons you use to open up your browsers.
Right click on the icon, and select properties
In the target or destination you may see the code after "chrome.exe" or "explorer.exe" that directs your browser to open to a specific page - overriding anything else. So remove that rogue code

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Re: Mystartsearch

Postby Acen » Mon Oct 20, 2014 12:39 pm

thanks i did what enrique suggested all is well.

except outlook as reduced in size. is now soo small i can bearly see it.

not the web page % of size just all been reduced!!

strange!!!


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