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Tech Clinic / Yet another Yoog victim
« on: December 08, 2008, 01:15:40 PM »
Hi all.
Thought i would register to post this. I got the dreaded yoog search on friday on a company laptop. I have not been able to find any reference to it at all. I have been in touch with our anti virus people (AVG enterprise) and Kaspersky which i use on the laptop. Neither of which has been able to offer a solution. However i have managed to get rid of it reliably today.
I use a Windows Vista Ultimate Laptop. I found 3 references to Yoog search in my add/remove programs. These involved Addcertion programs which i removed. After, i uninstalled Firefox (My default browser) I then tore apart the registry for all traces of Mozilla (easiest way i found is to just the registry for Mozilla) After i removed these entries i removed the Yoog Search from IE7 and restarted the computer. I downloaded and reinstall firefox and all is OK.
I dont know what Yoog is all about. The main problems i had was onoly being able to browse cached pages and the odd random popup.
I also connected to our test environment i made a couple of searches using Yoog search and our network monitor did not pick up any information being sent that shouldn't be.
Hope this helps....
Sorry just to add, if you are using firefox. Dont worry about exporting your bookmarks, download foxmarks. Sync them online and you can simply sync again once firefox is reinstalled
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Thought i would register to post this. I got the dreaded yoog search on friday on a company laptop. I have not been able to find any reference to it at all. I have been in touch with our anti virus people (AVG enterprise) and Kaspersky which i use on the laptop. Neither of which has been able to offer a solution. However i have managed to get rid of it reliably today.
I use a Windows Vista Ultimate Laptop. I found 3 references to Yoog search in my add/remove programs. These involved Addcertion programs which i removed. After, i uninstalled Firefox (My default browser) I then tore apart the registry for all traces of Mozilla (easiest way i found is to just the registry for Mozilla) After i removed these entries i removed the Yoog Search from IE7 and restarted the computer. I downloaded and reinstall firefox and all is OK.
I dont know what Yoog is all about. The main problems i had was onoly being able to browse cached pages and the odd random popup.
I also connected to our test environment i made a couple of searches using Yoog search and our network monitor did not pick up any information being sent that shouldn't be.
Hope this helps....
Sorry just to add, if you are using firefox. Dont worry about exporting your bookmarks, download foxmarks. Sync them online and you can simply sync again once firefox is reinstalled
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