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Asked: Jul 23 2007 11:36 AM GMT
Asked by: kfettig

browser says "I am spyware", no spyware or viruses identified

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Hello - one of the computers in my office is appending the words "I am spyware" in the title bar of Internet Explorer. For example, when I go to google.com, the title bar says "google.com - I am spyware". I have scanned the computer with Norton 2006 and Ad-aware and neither application is identifying spyware or viruses of any kind. The system is running XP, IE6.0.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

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Last Answered: Jul 23 2007 12:44 AM GMT by PMiller78

Try looking at this. See if it leads you in the right direction.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/176497

Paul

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EnigmaticKishore | Jul 23 2007 2:05PM GMT

Its better to migrate to Mozilla Firefox which is a free one and if not possible upgrade ur IE6.0 to IE7.0… which is better than the previous version but not as good as Firefox…

EnigmaticKishore | Jul 23 2007 2:05PM GMT

Its better to migrate to Mozilla Firefox which is a free one and if not possible upgrade ur IE6.0 to IE7.0… which is better than the previous version but not as good as Firefox…

3ABNTech | Jul 23 2007 2:44PM GMT

The scary part is what allowed a change in your registry to allow the display of that message. If you use regedit, you can do a search for that string, then delete the key where that string is located. This will most likely be located at:
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoft|Internet ExplorerMain

The string to delete is “Window Title”
Once deleted, the standard window title will be displayed.

Hope that helps…
-Jon

kfettig | Jul 23 2007 5:44PM GMT

Thank you to Paul and Jon. That is exactly what it was. I really appreciate your help!

bobkberg | Jul 23 2007 5:48PM GMT

I’m wondering if you are the victim of a practical joke.

Bob