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Title: how to remove bloody begin2search?
Post by: rchadd on December 06, 2004, 08:34:33 pm

help my IE6 browser has become infected with Begin2Seqarch toolbar.

How the hell can i remove this junk?

whenever i go and search in yahoo and click on a link that has info on how to do it. it seems the bloody spyware intercepts and displays an error message page instead of the selected page.

i want my browser back. what files need to be deleted?

least i had avant browser installed!

Title: Re: how to remove bloody begin2search?
Post by: Floyd10 on December 06, 2004, 08:40:11 pm

switch to linux :police:

lol

Um... try lavasoft's adaware

Title: Re: how to remove bloody begin2search?
Post by: rchadd on December 06, 2004, 08:43:00 pm

theres a link to uninstall it on their website

http://www.begin2search.com/uninstall.exe

Title: Re: how to remove bloody begin2search?
Post by: DrewKaree on December 06, 2004, 08:52:43 pm

Do a Google for "begin2search""removal" and look for something by MajorGeeks

You've got spyware/scumware/adware.  They'll be able to tell you what to do better than what we can.  You'll probably need to DL a prog called Hijack This to report a log so they can help you, but that's what I had to do.

Spybot may remove it for you as well, but do the Google search first.  After you've got it removed, DL Spybot (along with its plug-ins for home page hijackers and another one I can't remember) and Ad Aware and run 'em periodically.

Title: Re: how to remove bloody begin2search?
Post by: saint on December 06, 2004, 09:07:53 pm

Spybot
CWShredder
HiJack This!
Ad Aware

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Quote from: DrewKaree on December 06, 2004, 08:52:43 pm

Do a Google for "begin2search""removal" and look for something by MajorGeeks

You've got spyware/scumware/adware.  They'll be able to tell you what to do better than what we can.  You'll probably need to DL a prog called Hijack This to report a log so they can help you, but that's what I had to do.

Spybot may remove it for you as well, but do the Google search first.  After you've got it removed, DL Spybot (along with its plug-ins for home page hijackers and another one I can't remember) and Ad Aware and run 'em periodically.

Title: Re: how to remove bloody begin2search?
Post by: rchadd on December 06, 2004, 09:19:33 pm

i already had spybot and cwshredder - both did not detect begin2search!

had to use the link on the begin2search website to remove it.

Title: Re: how to remove bloody begin2search?
Post by: Floyd10 on December 06, 2004, 09:24:39 pm

congrats

Title: Re: how to remove bloody begin2search?
Post by: DrewKaree on December 06, 2004, 09:32:23 pm

I promise that it's still on your PC. 

Not the whole program, but little craplets on your computer hither and yon.

Title: Re: how to remove bloody begin2search?
Post by: Floyd10 on December 06, 2004, 10:19:07 pm

probably true

Title: Re: how to remove bloody begin2search?
Post by: TalkingOctopus on December 06, 2004, 10:49:47 pm

There are alot of specific instructions for manual removal on google.  I suggest you give those a try:

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&q=Begin2Search+removal

Title: Re: how to remove bloody begin2search?
Post by: Harry Potter on December 07, 2004, 05:49:31 am

Try this one:

http://www.mozilla.org

Why are there two of these  :D on the smiley list
No one seems to be using this one  :angel: