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WSmtzfarlo
AskWoody LoungerAugust 30, 2012 at 6:52 pm in reply to: IE8 Google redirected to Qandas.com How to get rid of it? #1347483No I haven’t used Norton power eraser but I have heard good things about it. I hope you have good luck with it 🙂
Could you please let me know if doing a factory reset is the same as using a disk to redo your windows?? Or would I have to use a disk in order to reinstall?? -
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AskWoody LoungerAugust 29, 2012 at 10:31 pm in reply to: IE8 Google redirected to Qandas.com How to get rid of it? #1347400Ok I have a few questions. What if I (or we) cant find a way to remove or fix this thing? Is this thing slowly destroying my computer?
Is it on my computer for a reason,like to steal my info??
If I was to reset my computer using the “Hold down Zero while powering on my computer” to put it back to factory settings .. . . Would that remove it? Fix it? Or would that just cover up the problem??
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WSmtzfarlo
AskWoody LoungerAugust 29, 2012 at 7:50 pm in reply to: IE8 Google redirected to Qandas.com How to get rid of it? #1347392I have the ghetto free AVG for protection. I haven’t had any problems until this Saturday! My husband or my little Cousin was using my laptop while I was at work. When I got it back there was the Virus redirect B**S 😡 but of course nobody knows what happened & they swear they didn’t download anything.
I’m happy to see that the list has been narrowed down a bit for me. The last thing I think I should do is start downloading different things trying to fix it 🙁MR.WINDOWS SECRETS GUY PLEASE HELP ME FIX THIS!!! I really really dont want to have reinstall my windows to get rid of this thing(LOL thats what I do when I have a problem I cant figure out or fix . . I just hold down the Handy Dandy Zero button while powering on my laptop ) Shoot I dont even know if that really fixes problems or if it just makes it so I cant tell the problems there anymore!!
Anywho .. . I am using Windows 7 Internet Explorer 9 PLEASE HELP 🙂
Thank you for your time 🙂
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