shao_khan Posted September 10, 2004 Report Share Posted September 10, 2004 OK, so i cleaned some virus stuff from my Dads PC a while ago and left him with instructions to buy something like Norton Internet secutriy for firewall and virus protection - well my sister listened, my gran listened but my Dad didnt see the point. So now he has something which changes the values in the registry for default home page to a search site (on-search or something like that) changes homeold settings to about:blank, and sets default search to sp.html which is a file that has appeared in his temp directory. I have done a quick search on this sp.html but didnt find much usefull, can anyone advise what he has. Ta. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bazza_g Posted September 10, 2004 Report Share Posted September 10, 2004 If it keeps running SmartSearch - it sounds like the people here are having the same kind of trouble - looks like a headache to fix it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shao_khan Posted September 10, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 10, 2004 It is a real problem because it keeps killing his dial up connection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BURTON Posted September 10, 2004 Report Share Posted September 10, 2004 I use adware but i get probs like this.. I get other dailup accounts appear and it kicks me out of BT ADSL!! I did do a reg search and clean stuff out of there which helped! Need to have a closer look as i get pop ups alot! one where i can play games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danksy Posted September 10, 2004 Report Share Posted September 10, 2004 Chris, Spybot search and destroy sorted me out when I had something similar! When my old man asked me to look at his PC, I had a quick look at his history file and almost pissed myself! Frank****.com Thehun.net to name a few! There's obviously life in the old (>60) dog yet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BURTON Posted September 10, 2004 Report Share Posted September 10, 2004 Hahaha nice one!! Also heard that the google search Bar for IE is supposed to be very good at stoping pop ups etc! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bazza_g Posted September 10, 2004 Report Share Posted September 10, 2004 [ QUOTE ] Chris, Spybot search and destroy sorted me out when I had something similar! When my old man asked me to look at his PC, I had a quick look at his history file and almost pissed myself! Frank****.com Thehun.net to name a few! There's obviously life in the old (>60) dog yet! [/ QUOTE ] classic stuff !! I hope I'm still 'active' at that age Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hopsta Posted September 10, 2004 Report Share Posted September 10, 2004 [ QUOTE ] Frank****.com [/ QUOTE ] Those attendees of the earlier Essex Meets will find that has another meaning too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danksy Posted September 10, 2004 Report Share Posted September 10, 2004 go on then Graham, explain...!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hopsta Posted September 10, 2004 Report Share Posted September 10, 2004 Woolworths Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danksy Posted September 10, 2004 Report Share Posted September 10, 2004 [ QUOTE ] Woolworths [/ QUOTE ] Sorry mate you've lost me now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shao_khan Posted September 10, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 10, 2004 Name the chap that founded woolworths or summit like that.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hopsta Posted September 11, 2004 Report Share Posted September 11, 2004 Think it was "Whats the founder of Woolworths middle name initials F.W.W." Mr Bangs came up with Frank the W4nk Woolworths, suppose you had to be there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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