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onhmss
18th Jul 2009, 12:40
recently I seem to have acquired an unwelcome guest, appearing now and again during searches. I use Firefox and a couple of anti spy/malware programmes but when I think it has gone, up pops crawler.com again.....
Any ideas of how to get rid of the thing ?
Thanks.
Mike-Bracknell
18th Jul 2009, 13:46
Google for "malwarebytes antimalware", and try that against it.
Your other alternative is to "Manage Add-ins" in your browser, and disable anything looking suspiciously like something you don't need.
green granite
18th Jul 2009, 16:13
It doesn't appear to be malware more a web portal and search engine:
Crawler portal offers personalized homepage, free 5GB webmail, Games, Screensavers, Wallpapers, Yellow Pages, Ringtones and more!
Crawler.com - Games, Screensavers, Wallpapers, eCards and more! (http://www.crawler.com/)
Crawler.com - Help (http://www.crawler.com/troubles.aspx?choice=743)
and
Remove Crawler, removal instructions (http://www.2-spyware.com/remove-crawler.html)
NB malwarebytes is worth having anyway, and link 2 says it will get rid of crawler for you.
green granite
18th Jul 2009, 18:06
Check the firefox add ons in case one of them automatically installs the toolbar unless you untick the box. This is a favourite for the Yahoo toolbar as well. :ugh:
onhmss
20th Jul 2009, 02:14
Many thanks for the ideas folks.
Whilst I do realise that crawler is not the traditional 'malware' type item, I object to these things appearing,uninvited, on my pc !
Hence my annoyance.
It still appears, from time to time, by the way, despite all efforts to stop it !
Saab Dastard
20th Jul 2009, 09:06
I know of several annoying crawlers (some even in government), but none called .com.
:}
SD
Tarq57
21st Jul 2009, 11:43
Did you have SpywareTerminator installed at any stage?
This can install a toolbar. Crawler, no less, if you activate a module called "WSG" (web security guard).
The applications should be easy enough to uninstall using the control panel, or the browser add-on manager.
Not a rogue, but I definitely stopped using it a year or two ago, because the install of the toolbar was default-install. (ie, you have to opt-out, and then WSG doesn't work. Waste of time, anyway.)
There are a few applications around that will install a toolbar, Ccleaner, for example.