What the heck is this on my browser?

[GoldenBear]

Here is the top right part of my browser (IE 5.0). What's that thing right next to it?

 

[IamDavid]

Looks like the comet cursor icon?

 

[Czar]

Outlook probably

 

[Bozo Galora]

porn shortcut

 

[Paulson]

It does!

Check to see if you accidently installed cometcursor Q)

 

[olds]

It's an icon, that I have never seen.

 

[snakesnfrogs]

yep, it's Comet Cursor

 

[Yeeny]

If you are referring to the arrow, its for MS Front Page.

 

[Looney]

Yeah it's cometcursor... that piece of crap. I don't know how i got that before either, but it was from visiting a website. Goddamn i hate that freaking thing, only happened once, but still pissed at how it got on my system.

 

[Pastore]

Just go into Control Panel> Add Remove Programs> uninstall comet cursor...

 

[Sacotool]

I would recommend running Ad-Aware, (don't have the link right now, I'm somebody does). Scan your system and get rid of all spyware references. Damn CometCursor straight to hell!:|

 

[J3anyus]

Ad-aware

 

[Looney]

Oh yeah, definitely run adaware... i remember my first time and had like over 100 things to clean!

 

[PliotronX]

After you get it removed, go to Internet Options|Advanced, and uncheck "Enable Install On Demand" to make sure it doesn't install ever again.

 

[Daniel]

I didn't have any a few weeks ago, now I was back up to 15, ugh.

 

[Looney]

Damn, i just ran it a couple of weeks ago and just ran it again now, and found 14. And a couple of them required me to boot into safemode to remove them because they were still in use. What a pain in the ass.

Use adaware people... it's free too, and doesn't take longer than a min or two to run.