Is there anyway to remove a search engine? Everytime I
type in a address such as Yahoo or Google it will never
bring it up. It always go to this page called Royalnet or
Premium Search. How can I get rid of this??

2. Use the following scanners to find and remove the website.

SpyBot S&D searches your harddisk for so-called spy- or adbots;
http://security.kolla.de/
or
Adaware
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
or
CWShredder
http://www.spychecker.com/program/cwshredder.html

3. Some porn websites redirects links to their websites using your HOSTS
file. Do a search for the HOSTS (without extension) file and remove the
entry.

4. If still no joy, download HijackThis from Spywareinfo download page

http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads.php

Run the program and you will find many entries. Most are OK. Post the log. I
will find the problem for you.

5. For future preventive maintenance, make sure programs cannot just
download on your computer without your permission. From the Internet
Toolbar, go to Tools > Internet Options > Advanced. Make sure "Enable
Install On Demand (Internet Explorer)" and "Enable Install On Demand
(Other)" are unchecked.

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"blueblondie923" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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I will try these. Thanks

I did the search and it listed these four:1) Hosts
c\windows 1 kb SAM file, 2) LM Hosts c\windows 4kb SAM
file, 3) hosts c\windows 1 kb file, 4) PA.Hostsit.SRV
c\program files 840 kb SRV file. How do I know which one
to delete?

[3) hosts c\windows 1 kb file] appears to be the real HOSTS file. but at
1KB, there's not much in it. To examine it, just right-click it and choose
"Open with notepad"

Did you run the three programs that Warren recommended?
Ad-aware
Spybot
CWShredder
Run those (in that order) then report back.

Additional information at http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm

Don
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