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January 26th, 2005 17:00
My Way Search Assistant
I just examined a brand new Dell Dimension 4700 and found that Dell is shipping this product with My Way Search Assistant pre-installed. What the heck is Dell thinking? This is well known spyware and is identified as such by major anti-spyware vendors including Sunbelt.
Does anyone have any insight into this or is it just one more revenue stream for Dell?
Thanks,
Vern
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mark5019
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January 26th, 2005 18:00
Debrasue
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January 28th, 2005 02:00
How did you remove search assistant? I have Ad-Aware and Spybot, Microsoft AntiSpyware and Norton Security, and the new security supplied by SP2. No hint of this spyware and I was using Dell My Way on Internet Explorer as my default page until I started using Mozilla Firefox. It doesn't show up on Add/Remove programs, so I went to Search and entered http://help.myway.com/searchassistant.html, found it and deleted it. How do you know if it's gone? Thanks!
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vernonls
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January 28th, 2005 13:00
It shows up on the add/remove program list. I just went there to remove it.
Vern
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January 29th, 2005 11:00
Removing via Add/Remove will not get rid of all the spyware features of this browser hijacker. Go here for detailed instructions:
http://www.free-web-browsers.com/support/remove-mysearch.shtml
mark5019
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January 29th, 2005 20:00