Porn question

[Guest BlackLight]

I linked to a porn site one night, and it triggered an auto-download of a bunch of crap onto my PC. It added a bunch of new bookmarks to my favorites list (I use IE), and a bunch of shortcuts to my desktop. That stuff's easy enough to delete, but it also managed to hook up with my browser's Search Feature, so whenever I try to do a Search on IE, I get shuttled to this porn site, and everything I deleted shows up on my computer again.

 

Any ideas about how to handle this? I'm going to try Ad-Aware, this spyware solution program I found on C-Net, but barring that, does anyone have any suggestions about how to fix the Search feature on Internet Explorer?

[Guest areacode212]

Hm, I never use IE's search feature, unless I'm using it to search for stuff in my IE history. If you do a lot of searches, I suggest downloading the Google Toolbar, which is REALLY useful. That way, you can ignore whatever the porn site did to IE's built-in search file, and still do good searches.

[Guest kkktookmybabyaway]

IE has a search feature? <<looks up>> Oh, I guess it does. Go with Google.

[Guest BlackLight]

Yeah, I can find some other way to do searches, but I'm worried about if someone is using my PC and tries to do a Search IE, and all this crap pops up. I need to eliminate it somehow.

[Guest DrTom]

There is an option to restore IE's default home page and search settings.  It's under Tools->Internet Options->Programs.  I use IE 6, but I'm pretty sure I remember the option in the 5.X series, as well.

[Guest BlackLight]

Kick-ass. It worked. Thanks Dr. Tom. Very much appreciated.

[Guest razazteca]

goto internet options and clear the History and delete the internet temp files.  Increase the security level also