You need to differentiate between spyware and other junk. I don't think you
have spyware but you do have a toolbar installed that is trapping your
searches. Start by checking ADD/REMOVE programs for toolbars and remove
them. Unfortunately many programs have toolbars attached to them and you
HAVE to do a custom install and tell them not to install it.
All these 'experts' arguing about their spyware being is better are idiots.
No one package is any better than another. At any point in time one may pick
up something that another one won't but as soon as he copies the others file
it will find the same thing. If all these people would spend their time
trying to give competent answers instead of trying to impress everyone how
good they are 'not' everyone would be way ahead.....
<phil@phil's.place.com> wrote in message
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> My wife's machine caught an adware bug that forces her IE Web searches
> to end up with 'search' sites such as YGOTOP.COM, YATOPMASH.COM and
> KONOSEARCH.COM.
>
> Ad-Aware nor Spybot seems to be able to find the adware crap on her
> machine that is causing this.
>
> She creates Web pages with MS Front Page, so she is stuck using IE to
> view the pages because MS's Web code 'irregularities.'
>
> Mozilla doesn't have these problems on her machine.
>
> How do I root out this adware crapola and get rid of it?
>
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