Removing Trojan Search Hijacker

[MadMax]

Originally Posted by Stever

Allowed me to blockem. Did a scan and it found a bunch of dialers did the remove but two werent able to be removed by norton but told me path on registry. Deleted it from registry but it came back.
Hunted deeper into registry and found a duplicate copy elsewere. Zapped it and now so far so good. Still need to shut machine down and restart to be sure.

Fingers are crossed.

Cant remember URL now. If it comes back i will post.

I've been hit with these before. For the ones Norton can't delete write down the path to the registry entry, reboot in safe mode and delete them manually in safe mode. For whatever reason, those search hijackers respawn if you delete them when windows is in full operation, but since safe mode has only the critical functions operating they're dormant and don't respawn (at least in my experience). HTH