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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ASKED:
July 23, 2007 11:36 AM
UPDATED:
September 26, 2007 3:53 PM
Answer Wiki:
Try looking at this. See if it leads you in the right direction.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/176497
Paul
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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…
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…
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
Thank you to Paul and Jon. That is exactly what it was. I really appreciate your help!
I’m wondering if you are the victim of a practical joke.
Bob
Sure sounds to me like a person who has access to the registry does not like Google.