My Search Web - POPUP 5

[stephmaya]

Hi there,

All of a sudden everytime I go to my home page which is GOOGLE, A nav bar popup shows up at the bottom of my screen. I discovered it somehow places its name "my search web" under the internetoptions section - under the set home page.

How do I get rid of this?

Please advise,
Thank you!

 

[blutekhnd]

Run an adware program like ad-aware or spybot.

 

[Marcs41]

see faq608-4650 and faq608-3482

Marc
[sub]If 'something' 'somewhere' gives 'some' error, expect random guesses or no replies at all. Please specify details.
Free Tip: The F1 Key does NOT destroy your PC![/sub]
How Do I Get Great Answers To my Tek-Tips Questions? See faq222-2244

 

[stephmaya]

Thanks, I did try adaware as I have it on my system but still no luck.

Marc, I am not sure why you wrote what you did. I though my question had enough detail.

 

[Marcs41]

What I wrote?
Two links to FAQ's handling your type of problem.
What is so strange about that?

Marc
[sub]If 'something' 'somewhere' gives 'some' error, expect random guesses or no replies at all. Please specify details.
Free Tip: The F1 Key does NOT destroy your PC![/sub]
How Do I Get Great Answers To my Tek-Tips Questions? See faq222-2244

 

[smah]

Marc, I suspect that stephmaya thought your signature info was your response.

Steve

 

[Marcs41]

Oh, yep, now that you mention it - lol

Marc

 

[stephmaya]

Oh, I am sorry Marc, I didn't see the linkes
Okay I wasn't awake!

I did more research on my own and discovered it is something called "windows searching" in my control panel.
When I try to remove it, my control panel freezes and won't allow me to remove it. Not sure not how to get rid of it.

Thanks

 

[blutekhnd]

Did you try to remove it in safe mode?

 

[diogenes10]

bcastner linked to an interesting little tool in
thread760-834037. You could give that a try.



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It's 10 O'Clock ( somewhere! ).
Are your registry and data backed up?

 

[11Bravo]

I have had to fix that one on a client machine at the office. Spybot and adaware won't fix it. You have to do THREE things:
First, using regedit, (make sure you are starting at the top of the registry so you don't miss any keys), hit the edit button and use the find feature. Look for MyWebSearch and delete EVERY key or value you find. You can shorten your work time by using the F3 button, the delete key and the enter key so you don't have to use the mouse.
2) Secondly, starting at the top, again, type in MWS and do that same thing, DELETE EVERY KEY you find.
3) go to your root (C and delete the mywebsearch FOLDER that is sitting there.

Reboot.

 

[stephmaya]

Thanks so much for everyones help, 11Bravo, the regedit process worked, much appreciated. Like learning new things too!

 

[stephmaya]

Hi again,
It came back!
Any other suggestions?

 

[bcastner]

http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/library/mysearchbar/index.phtml

 

[rgmartin]

Thanks bcastner what you suggested seemed like it should work; however, I did not have any of those items in my registry so I'm still being bothered by this! Any other suggestions?

 

[bcastner]

Very important that for all three programs discussed below that you have the latest definition files: faq608-4650