[nfbcs] Google is taking over my PC!

[Dave Webster]

No you can keep the google desktop I've got it on my pc.  I don't use it but 
I've got it.  Its fine.
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From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net>
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 12:09 PM
To: "NFBnet NFBCS Mailing List" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Google is taking over my PC!

> It was a search bar, as Lloyd said.  As soon as I saw his message, I
> remembered my husband hitting control-e, when I said Windows-e.
>
> The title of the pseudo-google page was "about:blank", but it wasn't
> blank, which was confusing.
> I saw the stuff Google has on my PC in the add/remove programs section of
> the Control Panel.  I removed it all except Google Desktop, which I'm not
> sure about.
>
> I too thought spyware, but, happily for me, Lloyd knew the right answer
> right away.
> Tracy
>
>
>> Hey Tracy,
>>
>> So the first to figure out is if it's really google that your web
>> browser is going to.
>>
>> You say it looks like google, but you can't select any of the links on
>> the results page?  That sounds suspicious.
>>
>> Did you check the URL bar to see which web page you're actually
>> visiting?  Does it end in .google.com
>>
>> If it truely is Google.com that your browser is going go, then you may
>> have a google product installed.  How did you check to see which
>> google products you had installed?
>>
>> Hope this Helps,
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 07:52:10AM -0500, Tracy Carcione wrote:
>>> Help!  Google is taking over!
>>> Well OK, not totally, but still...as of a couple days ago, whenever I
>>> open
>>> Internet Explorer, Google comes up as my home page.  And it's not even
>>> regular Google, because, when I put something in to search for, and the
>>> links come up, I can't actually choose any of them.
>>> I went to Internet Options and selected blank as my homepage, which is
>>> what I want, and what it's been for a long time.  I uninstalled
>>> something
>>> called Google AFE. I've tried to find if there's a file called "blank"
>>> that might have gotten taken over somehow, but I don't find one.
>>> How can I get IE to open with my blank homepage, like it always used to
>>> do?  And where is this darned Google page coming from?
>>>
>>> My husband also uses this PC, and Goodness knows what he may have
>>> clicked
>>> on by accident, but I should still be able to reset it.
>>> Sure hope some of you smart people have some ideas.  I feel like Big
>>> Brother is breathing down my neck.
>>> Tracy
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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