strange

[King Grover]

i found this thing on a friends computer last night and i don't even know how top explain it, but i'm gonna try

he has this icon on his desktop for "free online poker" and it refers to a site called umaxsearch.com/search or something like that.

wierd thing is, no matter how many times i delete it, it alwasy comes back.

This spyware (i'm assuming) is totally farking up his ie settings to the point where it removes and replaces his bookmarks on every boot and causes the address bar not to function. He has to use the netZero search bar for an address and then click the supplied link. I ran adaware and removed like 40 some entries and deleted umax entries from reg, but this thing keeps coming back.

has anybody heard of this or even understand what it is that i am talking aboot?

[gazzak]

Just had a quick browse and it seems that people who have had this problem didn't fix it with ad-aware, but spybot did the trick. I use only ad-aware myself so think I'll pop over to Tucows now and install spybot myself.

[Stalemate]

With a URL having the word "search" in there, I'd go with a little shot of HijackThis, just to be safe.