Search engine IE

comphollic

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Dec 1, 2003
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Ok, heres the problem... I installed this program this program, had spyware, so i deleted it, its completely wiped out now, but it changed my default search engine to some wierd one.. anyways, I've googled this up, I was told to go to registery and delete a key pertaining to the search engine.. It also instructed me how to change it back to msn (default)... but I just can't get it to work... I've tried all ideas i can think of.. can anyone help me out plz.. I want to change the default search engine to msn search..
 

TGS

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May 3, 2005
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I had something similiar on my computer. It was a yahoo companion hijacker. Unfortunately I just did searches on entires that had yahoo in them on the entire registry. I eventually found the search entry:

R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Search Bar = »red.clientapps.yahoo.com/customize/ie/..
R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Search Bar = »rd.yahoo.com/slv/ycheck/as/*http://www..
R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Window Title = Microsoft Internet Explorer
R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchURL,(Default) = »red.clientapps.yahoo.com/customize/ie/..