real searcher internet home page

jdeh · Sep 5, 2004

anybody heard of Real Searcher home page? My sister's PC has it. It took over as her internet home page and she wants to zap it. Any suggestions on how to remove it?

She changes her default internet page to Google but the Real Searcher always replaces it.

Thanks Bo Bo Bolinski

chaslang · Sep 6, 2004

Quite often Real-Searcher comes with a lot of other problems. So the first steps we require to be executed are in this Sticky thread < READ ME FIRST: Basic Spyware, Trojan And Virus Removal >

The first step in that thread will send you to MS update, if running WinXP I would suggest not doing the SP2 update at this time.

If you already have any of the programs linked in the tutorial please double check your version to make sure you have the latest one and that you have any/all updates for the programs.

Make sure you run the two online scans that are listed.

NOTE: In order to resolve the issues you are having it is very important that you at least try to perform all the steps as outlined. If you have any difficulty please post back letting us know what steps you have completed, what you found while doing the scans if anything and details about any problems you have encountered in completing the steps. The more details you can provide the better.

After running all those steps, run these too:
http://www.bitdefender.com/scan/licence.php
http://www.ravantivirus.com/scan/

Provide us with some feedback on the results of this steps (not just "I ran them" tell us what they find and if there are any problems fixing anything).

jdeh · Sep 6, 2004

Thanks for the tips chaslang. We followed similar advice by using the first link in a google search for "Real Searcher" which had very detailed instructions to run CWShredder, hijack this, etc etc etc with pages of very detailed addresses that we were to delete from the results of hijack this. Go to the Safe Mode, do this, reboot, do this, go back to the Safe Mode, etc etc etc. It took several hours and didn't solve the problem. Finally, my sister, out of desperation, deleted a few items using HiJackThis log that made specifc reference to the website that was causing the problem with the word redirect in them, I assume meaning that these links were "redirecting" her Yahoo homepage to the real searcher (which is a nasty nasty homepage replete with porno popups). That seemed to have solved the problem.

Go figure, none of the fix-it directions gave reference to the redirect links??

Thanks, Bo Bo Bolinski

chaslang · Sep 7, 2004

If you stay on MG's and work your issues here, you will find that we also get things fixed. We just require standard procedures to be followed first before we will dig into a HijackThis log. If you had followed my steps and still had a problem, the next step would have been for me to request a HijackThis log and at that point we would probably have been all fixed up.

Word of advice. You can work you problems on any forum you like, but never work on more than one at they same time. You will only confuse the helpers and most likely yourself too.

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