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OT: Need some computer advice |
Allan |
Oct 15 2007, 01:20 PM
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Teenerless Weenie Group: Members Posts: 8,373 Joined: 5-July 04 From: Western Mesopotamia Member No.: 2,304 Region Association: Southern California |
We had a friend over yesterday and her son got on our computer and apparently visited a couple of really gruesome web sites with graphic pictures of accidents. Personally I could care less but, my daughter uses the computer and now everytime you type any address that starts with the same letter as the sites, they pop up on the address bar.
How can I get it to stop doing that so my daughter doesn't accidentally end up at the sites? I've tried clearing the history and deleting the cookies and temporary internet files but it didn't work... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) |
Mid_Engine_914 |
Oct 15 2007, 01:30 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 195 Joined: 22-September 06 From: Left Coast Member No.: 6,888 |
First let me say what a sick puppy your friend's kid is. To answer your question, in IE click on Tools and then in the General Tab click Delete and then Delete History. Also make sure he hasn't bookmarked the sites or they will also show up in the address bar. The changes should work after you close down the browser and restart it.
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purple |
Oct 15 2007, 01:32 PM
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Pigeon feeders attract me Group: Members Posts: 938 Joined: 24-July 07 From: Houston, TX Member No.: 7,942 Region Association: None |
meh, that's a common website; rotten.com
at least it wasnt goatse.cx back in '01, now that was some twisted stuff. which browser is it? firefox, safari, opera, or Internet exploder? |
Allan |
Oct 15 2007, 01:36 PM
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Teenerless Weenie Group: Members Posts: 8,373 Joined: 5-July 04 From: Western Mesopotamia Member No.: 2,304 Region Association: Southern California |
I'm running Internet Explorer.
Already tried the history delete. |
Mid_Engine_914 |
Oct 15 2007, 01:39 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 195 Joined: 22-September 06 From: Left Coast Member No.: 6,888 |
The changes should work after you close down the browser and restart it.
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Allan |
Oct 15 2007, 01:41 PM
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Teenerless Weenie Group: Members Posts: 8,373 Joined: 5-July 04 From: Western Mesopotamia Member No.: 2,304 Region Association: Southern California |
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Mid_Engine_914 |
Oct 15 2007, 01:44 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 195 Joined: 22-September 06 From: Left Coast Member No.: 6,888 |
It must be some kind of malware then. Maybe try Spybot Search & Destroy.
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html |
lotus_65 |
Oct 15 2007, 01:50 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,608 Joined: 21-March 05 From: minneapolis, mn Member No.: 3,795 Region Association: Northstar Region |
you should be able to disable the feature that "auto-fills" or "auto completes" the address as you type it.
you may also need to delete (empty) the cache. good luck, paul |
OmegaM1A1 |
Oct 15 2007, 01:54 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 29 Joined: 14-October 07 From: Rohnert Park, Sonoma County, NorCal Member No.: 8,229 |
I would run Firefox regardless. Overall it tends to be better and clearing cache/history/etc solves most problems.
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Rand |
Oct 15 2007, 02:04 PM
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Cross Member Group: Members Posts: 7,409 Joined: 8-February 05 From: OR Member No.: 3,573 Region Association: None |
It's not in history or cache... It's in the MRU list. If you are comfortable running Regedit (Start menu, Run, Regedit) expand the tree to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Typed URLs Go in the right side and delete then ones you want to (right-click, delete). It can also be cleared in start menu properties, clearing the recently used programs / documents, but that also clears out your start menu of course. |
jk76.914 |
Oct 15 2007, 09:12 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 809 Joined: 12-April 05 From: Massachusetts Member No.: 3,925 Region Association: North East States |
I suggest you download Ad-aware. It's a free download, that does a great job of finding malware and adware. I first heard of it during a service call to Microsoft, when their tech told me about it. I've used it for about 5 years now, and recommended it to many others. Also, it's highly rated by PC magazine. You can find it at www.lavasoft.com . Be sure to download the free version.
Once you download it, update definitions and then run it. It'll find most everything, but it will also ask you if you want to clear your MRU files. Check all the boxes and clear everything. It'll be gone. I run it about once a month or 6 weeks. Good luck. |
cooltimes |
Oct 15 2007, 09:42 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 2,508 Joined: 18-May 04 Member No.: 2,081 Region Association: None |
IMHO, I would clear all the cookies and check and be positive what your web starting page is. Scum sets up in those modes without your knowledge. If it won't go away, click that little place between forward and back arrow in the browser and you can keep it from popping back up.
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Project 6 |
Oct 15 2007, 10:14 PM
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large member Group: Members Posts: 359 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Utah Member No.: 51 Region Association: None |
Go to "Tools"
Click "internet options" Click on "delete history", "cookies", "passwords", "files", "forms", etc..... This should get rid of all the browser histories. You will have to put in passwords at sites that used to recognize you, but unless you have a password protected computer it's dumb to have those settings anyways. THEN download Windows Defender, it's free. Run it. Go to http://www.anti-virus.com/ and run the free scan. It will clean what ails ya, or give you an indepth explanation on how to do it manually. Consider buying Trend Anti-virus it's the best out there and will block sites that have a bad boy rating. With kids this is needed. THEN put a password on your kid's computer and partion it. Make yourself the administrator. The kid as a user. You can always reset the kid's password even if they are dumb enough to let someone on it. You can have a guest partition as well. The guest has no download priveleges and the user partition can with your password if YOU allow it. Now, calculate your time, and send a bill to the little shit. This post has been edited by Bass Fisher: Oct 15 2007, 10:17 PM |
KaptKaos |
Oct 16 2007, 01:09 AM
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Family Group: Members Posts: 4,009 Joined: 23-April 03 From: Near Wausau Member No.: 607 Region Association: Upper MidWest |
Allan,
Give me a call tomorrow, I will PM you my cell. If you have boardband, I can remote in and take care of it for you. |
Dr. Roger |
Oct 16 2007, 01:36 AM
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A bat out of hell. Group: Members Posts: 3,944 Joined: 31-January 05 From: Hercules, California Member No.: 3,533 Region Association: Northern California |
actually it's under tools/internet options/content tab/auto complete button/ then deselect which options yo no longer want to be auto-completed.
then restart IE. Roger Go to "Tools" Click "internet options" Click on "delete history", "cookies", "passwords", "files", "forms", etc..... This should get rid of all the browser histories. You will have to put in passwords at sites that used to recognize you, but unless you have a password protected computer it's dumb to have those settings anyways. THEN download Windows Defender, it's free. Run it. Go to http://www.anti-virus.com/ and run the free scan. It will clean what ails ya, or give you an indepth explanation on how to do it manually. Consider buying Trend Anti-virus it's the best out there and will block sites that have a bad boy rating. With kids this is needed. THEN put a password on your kid's computer and partion it. Make yourself the administrator. The kid as a user. You can always reset the kid's password even if they are dumb enough to let someone on it. You can have a guest partition as well. The guest has no download priveleges and the user partition can with your password if YOU allow it. Now, calculate your time, and send a bill to the little shit. Attached thumbnail(s) |
tat2dphreak |
Oct 16 2007, 02:18 PM
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stoya, stoya, stoya Group: Benefactors Posts: 8,797 Joined: 6-June 03 From: Wylie, TX Member No.: 792 Region Association: Southwest Region |
the other thing I would add is set your history to keep for 0 days... unless you are using the history to see where your kids are going(net nanny or one of those types of programs work better tho) the history isn't needed and causes pains like this...
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Rand |
Oct 16 2007, 04:11 PM
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Cross Member Group: Members Posts: 7,409 Joined: 8-February 05 From: OR Member No.: 3,573 Region Association: None |
Allan, has this been resolved yet? The posts keep coming, but they are all over the map and missing the mark.
Please hear this: When you start typing in the address box in IE, and that pulldown is available to show previous site addresses.... THAT is NOT in history, or cookies, temporary internet files, browser cache, yada yada yada. It is also not an indication of malware. It is a different animal, and it does not need to be a mystery. Let's keep it simple and on track. If you are battling this, please try this: 1. Click Start menu. 2. Then Run. (Or if you are running Windows Vista, just look for that text box that shows up right above and click into there). 3. Type REGEDIT and press enter. 4. Expand the tree on the left to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Typed URLs 5. Once you have clicked "TypedURLs" on the left, look at the right pane. It will show you the list of URLs that show up in that IE address bar which is the topic of this thread. 6. Any URLs there you want to remove? Right-click, and delete. Done deal. |
rjames |
Oct 16 2007, 09:04 PM
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I'm made of metal Group: Members Posts: 3,932 Joined: 24-July 05 From: Shoreline, WA Member No.: 4,467 Region Association: Pacific Northwest |
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