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Software => Internet browsers => Topic started by: futluce on December 20, 2009, 07:27:26 AM

Title: News Pedia continues to pop up on IE7
Post by: futluce on December 20, 2009, 07:27:26 AM

I think that this started on Friday.  Every few minutes "The News Pedia" pops up in a new tab.  I believe that it is a part of Google and every time it comes up there is a new subject.  I did a Google search for this and found that this same thing had been happening on Firefox and Mozilla and the newest thread stated that his IE was affected as well with the same issues.  I did a search on this site but can't find anything.  Does anyone have any experience with this?  It is extremely annoying.
Thanks!

Title: Re: News Pedia continues to pop up on IE7
Post by: Allan on December 20, 2009, 08:22:13 AM

First thing you want to do is run a full system scan with BOTH your anti virus utility AND with either MalwareBytes or Super AntiSpyware

Title: Re: News Pedia continues to pop up on IE7
Post by: futluce on December 20, 2009, 08:42:17 AM

Thanks for responding.  I did a regular scan already but now am doing a thorough scan then will do the other scan that you recommended.
Mary

Title: Re: News Pedia continues to pop up on IE7
Post by: futluce on December 21, 2009, 04:23:54 AM

Thanks for the info on Malware Bytes - it found a worm it is now in quarantine.  Since then I have had no more News Pedia pop ups!

Title: Re: News Pedia continues to pop up on IE7
Post by: Allan on December 21, 2009, 05:52:22 AM

Glad you got it all sorted out.