I did a stupid thing

Dregor Thule · Post by **Dregor Thule** » January 23, 2004, 12:06 am

Was installing 3.3 of Bit Torrent (which I already had as it turns out) and I foolishly left the box marked install web search whatever. This installed a highly intrusive search program that infiltrated my IE. At first it showed up as a gray bar at the bottom, added a bunch of desktop and favorites links, and changed my homepage. Stopped that nonsense. Then it showed up as a search bar at the top of my browser a-la google bar. Turned it off by right-clicking the menu's at the top and finding a "qyyutrqueeg" checked. Unchecked, it's gone. But now my IE is acting bizarre.

I try and click on links and posts, and IE just freezes up on me. I've tried to find somewhere in IE where there's installed components or something, but nada. Any ideas?

Vetiria · Post by **Vetiria** » January 23, 2004, 12:50 am

Have you checked your Add/Remove Programs?

Dregor Thule · Post by **Dregor Thule** » January 23, 2004, 12:50 am

Yes, couldn't find anything.

Marbus · Post by **Marbus** » January 23, 2004, 12:56 am

It's probably something you will have to remove by editing the regestry. However if you don't know what it was called that could be a big problem. If that's the case you can go to the System Information tool from Accessorys/Systems Tools then view system history and check the software changes on the date it happened. From there you might get enough info to remove from the registry.

The other option would be to throw in your XP disk and do a repair install. Not too bad if you have a fast connect for the updates afterwards. If you haven't formatted in a while this might be a good time to do that...

Marb

Pahreyia · Post by **Pahreyia** » January 23, 2004, 2:48 am

Use WinXP system rollback tool.

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » January 23, 2004, 9:00 am

Pahreyia wrote:Use WinXP system rollback tool.

I always forget about that.

But it's a nice feature. Saved me numerous reinstalls when I was trying to get SP1 working.

Dregor Thule · Post by **Dregor Thule** » January 23, 2004, 11:31 am

Hmm, good call. I'll check it out when I get home.

Dregor Thule · Post by **Dregor Thule** » January 23, 2004, 6:22 pm

System restore worked like a charm, thanks for the reminder.

Tenuvil · Post by **Tenuvil** » January 26, 2004, 1:21 pm

this is why I will never install another file sharing app.