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Posted by: succdis

I tried to fix in my registry a spyware program or hijack that was sending my search to [url]www.searchxl.com.[/url] I tried resetting it and just deleting it and it eventuallty came back. The location was

HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-329068152-838170752-682003330-70234\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl

I was wondering if there would be a way to manually or from a script reneter the search url back into my registry.

Now its all I have is a page cannot be displayed for a side asearch bar in internet explorer.

I deleted the key so it is gone. There are a few entried in there thyat also contain searchxl.com so I deleted those keys. Now obviously I was frustrated so I got delete happy and I feel pretty comfortable with a PC. any ideas out there?

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Download & run Spybot Search and Destroy [b]AND[/b] Lavasofts Ad-Aware.

See my sig...

Posted by: succdis

OMG. I had Adaware and it did not fix it as it does not Repair registry. I had Spyware Blaster running in background which monitors spyware activity. I uninstalled it and refreshed my page and BAM MSN search came back. In case this helps.

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Check [url="http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/library/searchxl/index.phtml"]here[/url].

Posted by: succdis

Thanks!

Those sneaky *******s. DIE HIJACKERS DIE I will not buy crap from your demanding search engines!!!

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It worked then...? :cool:

Nice one! Yay!

Another strike for Anti-Spyware! :)