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noxious
2003-11-08, 08:01 PM
I don't know what it is, or how to get rid of it :( Basically any time I type in a URL in the bottom status bar of IE6 it shows http://ehttp.cc/? infront of every URL typed. So www.blynk.net becomes http://ehttp.cc/?www.blynk.net. In addition, sometimes it wont load a website (That you know exists, something as common as www.shacknews.com) and it goes to a wierd serach engine type page. As if this wasn't frustrating enough, the browser lags horribly. If I try to highlight text or scroll down a webpage it takes forever to do so and gets semi-unresponsive.

If you have any idea what is wrong or what I can do to fix it, please help me, I will worship you as a God. Well, something like that anyway.

Thanks,
-- SunFx

Sentrosi
2003-11-08, 08:03 PM
Get spybot or adaware. Free downloads and they eliminate spyware. Then go into safe mode and delete all files that they could not delete. You should be fine then.

noxious
2003-11-08, 10:14 PM
I have adaware. I used it and it didn't fix the problem.

Octavian
2003-11-09, 02:04 AM
Try SpyBot then. Search your computer files for any unusual folders that you swear weren't there the day before.

ZionsFire
2003-11-09, 05:50 AM
SpyBot S&D>all spyware

Sentrosi
2003-11-09, 06:46 AM
Yes

Rbstr
2003-11-09, 11:52 AM
yeah i just boot up ion safemode and go into the task manager and terminate all the procceses that i don't know waht they do, then find the thing in MSconfig and turn it off, then go to the folder listed and delete it. bye bye spaysuff and things that i don't like, like the gain network adds that you get from installing Divx, it says you have to uninstal divx to do stopo them form coming but i did what i stated above and its gone, but i still have divx

Marsman
2003-11-09, 01:09 PM
Make sure nothing has replaced your IEXPLORE.EXE with another copy as well. A lot of that crap is done by redirecting your shortcuts to IE to another copy of iexplore.exe somewhere which does various nasty things.

noxious
2003-11-09, 06:19 PM
I suppose I'll try SpyBot then. I already disable all background applications that I have not specifically set to run and have already made sure that something running in the background was the cause of this, and it's not.

EDIT* SpyBot worked. Thanks for the suggestion guys :)

SilverLord
2003-11-10, 09:12 AM
Where can I get spybot?

Daleon
2003-11-10, 09:17 AM
Just google for it. Its the shiz.

noxious
2003-11-10, 02:17 PM
I grabbed it from download.com. Simply search for SpyBot it's first on the list.