babylon search engine

paddles

has anyone else got this? I don't know how I got it but I can't get rid of it. Please help me get mozilla / google back as my home=page/ auto search engine, And if anyone can throw a light on where this came from, better still!

Thanks.

yoyo

paddles wrote: »

has anyone else got this? I don't know how I got it but I can't get rid of it. Please help me get mozilla / google back as my home=page/ auto search engine, And if anyone can throw a light on where this came from, better still!

Thanks.

Try ADWCleaner

Nick

paddles

yoyo wrote: »

Try ADWCleaner

Nick

So is it a virus? How best prevent it coming back? I had heard something about google search engine bein g messed with. Any connection??

ASJ112

You probably installed some program that bundled in babylon without telling you.

paddles

ASJ112 wrote: »

You probably installed some program that bundled in babylon without telling you.

Oh, ok. will try that so, I hate it and keep getting these annoying pop-ups! :mad:
Cheers.

Peregrine

paddles wrote: »

So is it a virus? How best prevent it coming back? I had heard something about google search engine bein g messed with. Any connection??

It's adware, you installed something and you unknowingly let it install some useless ****e with it. When you install some free software(emoticons are the common one), they have little boxes at the bottom or something that says "Yes, I want to install x and y, I'm also interested in z" blah blah blah. And it's always checked by default so be aware of that and just uncheck it next time

They're common enough, actually now that you mention it I think my brother's search is still defaulted to "Babylon" it's been years :rolleyes:

paddles

thanks. all a learning curve...

PogMoThoin

How about a removal tool?

Allyall

Just reset Firefox to Defaults. - LINK (Or just copy the Pictures below)
And run a scan to get rid of it. Download MALWAREBYTES and Update it, the run quick scan.

paddles

Great, this seemed the easiest method. Worked a treat! Thanks and to all for all suggestions.

paddles

Allyall wrote: »

Just reset Firefox to Defaults. - LINK (Or just copy the Pictures below)
And run a scan to get rid of it. Download MALWAREBYTES and Update it, the run quick scan.

OK, premature. Logged on today and it's still babylon!!

Will give the other suggestion a lash!

paddles

paddles wrote: »

Great, this seemed the easiest method. Worked a treat! Thanks and to all for all suggestions.

It didn't work after all. today, still have babylon. Gonna try the other method..

yoyo

paddles wrote: »

It didn't work after all. today, still have babylon. Gonna try the other method..

See if you can follow this post. Seems like Babylon has a service that keeps re-applying the customizations regardless of a reset

Nick

Allyall

paddles wrote: »

It didn't work after all. today, still have babylon. Gonna try the other method..

Nasty little fecker. The Malwarebytes scan usually gets rid of it completely.
They must have updated it, so Malwarebytes will have to update their scanner definitions.

The post linked must be the best way for now.

paddles

Where did the babylon post go?????? I was gonna try that method!!

Peregrine

paddles wrote: »

Where did the babylon post go?????? I was gonna try that method!!

Hmmm good question

My post quoting it also disappeared
Nick, if that user deleted the original post, would my post disappear too? Or closed their account even
Was it a mod?

yoyo

Nimrod 7 wrote: »

Hmmm good question

My post quoting it also disappeared
Nick, if that user deleted the original post, would my post disappear too? Or closed their account even
Was it a mod?

It was an admin decision. You can follow the uninstall link on babylon.com here that was posted

Nick

red sean

ADWCleaner got rid of it for me a couple of weeks ago.