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Old October 15th, 2003, 01:22 AM
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You have some spyware/adware that installed itself. You need to get a program like Ad-Aware to clean it up.
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Posting while I was typing.

It actually is not a virus, which is why anti-virus programs can not do anything. It looks like a normal program to them. Ad-Aware (or an equivalent) is the solution, as you are probably well aware of by now.
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Indeed, I've run spy-bot as well as ad-aware 6.0 with the new build. neither has removed this annoying bug. arrrggghhh. Upon each re-start of the computer they find lots of new adware appears on their 'found and removed' list. most of them containing the searchv name in it.
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Did you make sure to get the latest updates for those programs? Try running any updater functions they have.
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that should be illegal.
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It is illegal... falls under the same Category as releasing viruses and such.

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As a Last ditch effort I've manually deleted the whole load of files, they are suddenly there again when I reboot, the thing that scares me the most is when Avast detected this thing within my system restore drive. I've got one of those dells where the system restore is a seperate part of the hard drive, untouchable supposidly. So now even a full format/restore probally won't get rid of this. Don't even know how the damnable thing got on their in the first place.

Last resort, emailed the support page of the searchv people telling them my problem and asking to please get the thing off my hard drive. Doubt they'll even respond much less help out.

Sigh, ah well, guess I've got a new homepage for life.
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