Banishing the plague of Search Conduit
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I have uninstalled its entry from Programs and Features, I have removed it from the add ons, I have removed it from the list of search engines, ... and that was just on Firefox. I have performed similar activities for IE9 and Chrome, but still it persists. I cant find any other advice on the web. All help appreciated
Ger
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I have uninstalled its entry from Programs and Features, I have removed it from the add ons, I have removed it from the list of search engines, ... and that was just on Firefox. I have performed similar activities for IE9 and Chrome, but still it persists. I cant find any other advice on the web. All help appreciated
Ger
Try ADWCleaner[^] works nice for mysearchdial... Although I'd still love a tool that would prevent it being installed in the first place. I have to clean it off my mums computer every few weeks.
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I have uninstalled its entry from Programs and Features, I have removed it from the add ons, I have removed it from the list of search engines, ... and that was just on Firefox. I have performed similar activities for IE9 and Chrome, but still it persists. I cant find any other advice on the web. All help appreciated
Ger
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I have uninstalled its entry from Programs and Features, I have removed it from the add ons, I have removed it from the list of search engines, ... and that was just on Firefox. I have performed similar activities for IE9 and Chrome, but still it persists. I cant find any other advice on the web. All help appreciated
Ger
Honestly, just reinstall Windows. You can never be 100% with things like this.
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I have uninstalled its entry from Programs and Features, I have removed it from the add ons, I have removed it from the list of search engines, ... and that was just on Firefox. I have performed similar activities for IE9 and Chrome, but still it persists. I cant find any other advice on the web. All help appreciated
Ger
Hi, For FireFox I found this tip: Type about:config in the url field , you get a question if you know what you are doing, and then after clicking yes you get a list with preference names and values. Type in the searchbox above "conduit" and you get a list of values with "conduit" in it (if its in your firefox preferences.) Reset all values and it will be gone. I mention above because I'm not sure you did this , anyhow it's a good way to check if its still in firefox
With friendly greetings,:) Eric Goedhart
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I have uninstalled its entry from Programs and Features, I have removed it from the add ons, I have removed it from the list of search engines, ... and that was just on Firefox. I have performed similar activities for IE9 and Chrome, but still it persists. I cant find any other advice on the web. All help appreciated
Ger
You may want to check the shortcuts that you have for Firefox. I've encountered this case before with Conduit. it adds the URL onto the end of the shortcut string, automatically calling the Conduit page. Most conduits can be cleared with a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) remover like ADWCleaner, although I don't know exactly if ADWCleaner clears the URL ending on the shortcuts. Best of luck. :)
if (Broken) then fix.this else !fix.this end-if
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You may want to check the shortcuts that you have for Firefox. I've encountered this case before with Conduit. it adds the URL onto the end of the shortcut string, automatically calling the Conduit page. Most conduits can be cleared with a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) remover like ADWCleaner, although I don't know exactly if ADWCleaner clears the URL ending on the shortcuts. Best of luck. :)
if (Broken) then fix.this else !fix.this end-if
Impressive stuff. Even freed up an additional half gig of valuable space!
Ger