Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Removing the qooqlle browser hijack

Removing the qooqlle browser hijack

Removing the qooqlle browser hijack

I do alot of surfing and eventually a browser hijacker got me.  I am not sure where i got it from but the only new site I started visiting recently was lifehacker.  That is not to say I got it from there, but very coincidental.

Anyways, my antivirus, firewall, and other safe surfing products didn’t catch this hijacker.  It is not a virus or malware and must be removed at the registry level.

You can tell you have it because when you reboot, the program redirects you to their hijacked site.  I finally found what worked online and am reprinting here for your edification.

I tried everything to delete qooqlle – adaware, spybot, malwarebytes, super, comodo even contacted my ISP but everytime I reset my homepage and then rebooted, qooqlle remained my homepage.
Appear to have solved it myself now, realising this MF was in my Registry.
Try This..

Click – Start
Click Run
Type regedit
Click Edit
Click Find
Type qooqlle
It should come up on the ri...


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