[nfbcs] Google is taking over my PC!

[Tracy Carcione]

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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