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Software => Internet browsers => Topic started by: Starwind51 on January 19, 2012, 11:07:01 PM
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Looking through old files, I found something with a .abm extention. Clicking on it yielded a message saying I didn't have the program to open it. I did a search for a program to open .abm extentions, downloaded it, and not when I click my homepage button it opens to funmoods.com. I know how to change my homepage back to what I want, but how do I make sure anything related to funmoods and anything else that I got in that download that I don't want is deleted from my computer?
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http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/facemoods.com (http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/facemoods.com)
(http://i42.tinypic.com/25f6oba.png)
I would be suspicious of anything that gives you free smileys, emoticons, and the like.
You probably have been infected with a virus.
I did a google search for ".abm file extension" and nothing relevant came up.
Please visit our Virus and Spyware removal board: http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php/board,7.0.html
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when I click my homepage button it opens to funmoods.com.
hxxp://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/facemoods.com
Different spellings!
funmoods.com is currently unrated by WOT and after testing the software it is not a virus but does contain adware.
(http://funmoods.com/public/shared/images/fm/after_ins_toolbar_funmoods.png)
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Nice catch there EF !
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Nice catch there EF !
Thanks.
@Starwind51 - The .abm extention is usually associated with multimedia files. It could have come from some sort of tagging software, multimedia editing/downloading software or other software once installed that included smileys.
Looking through old files, I found something with a .abm extention.
This very thing is what got me involved helping in online forums. I turned my first computer into a brick because I deleted something that I should not have. My best advice is to stay away from digging through system files, especially the hidden ones. (http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs23/f/2007/330/d/8/_finger__rvmp_by_bad_blood.gif)
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This very thing is what got me involved helping in online forums. I turned my first computer into a brick because I deleted something that I should not have. My best advice is to stay away from digging through system files, especially the hidden ones.
And i for one am sure glad you made that mistake way back when.... ;)
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I almost always use google for web browsing, but for one site I have to use explorer. When I went to open explorer today I saw that no matter what I do, "funmoods" opens as the homepage, and even if I get it to change the homepage I can't get rid of it as a toolbar. So I did a search for how to get rid of these last traces of funmoods and found a listing for pctools which said to download it. PCtools does not get rid of funmoods, it does a scan of your computer and tells you where you have issues. To get rid of funmoods you have to buy the pctools product, which I certainly was not about to do after they tricked me into downloading it. I had a devil of a time getting rid of pctools. Anyway, I took a screen print of locations where pctools said I had issues. I'm guessing the last bits of funmoods are lodged there. How do I get rid of these things?
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Ok, I figured out how to get my explorer homepage to stay what I wanted it to be, but how do I make sure there isn't any funmoods files hidden anywhere on my computer?