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[quote][i]Originally posted by SVM 286[/i] Good morning Ladies and Gents. I'm rather selfishly after some assistance/knowledge regarding something that i've completely stupidly and inadvertantly downloaded to my own personal and very new laptop. When hunting for the Christmas edition of Doctor Who in early January, I attempted to open a streaming file of the show. The site I was on, told me I needed what I believe was called 'Illivid' software to open or download the file. Like an idiot I did so and not only didn't receive the show to watch, but unknowingly invited this 'searchnu.com/406' thing to sneak in under the radar and attach itself to my search engine. Now every time I try to open Internet Explorer or Chrome, this damn searchnu thing opens. From what i've read, it's classed as a search engine hijacker rather that a conventional virus and this is why my Norton 360 won't touch it. I've done a full scan and it's still there every time without fail on both Chrome and I.E I'm pretty worried as i've also read that it's either a form of spyware, and/or can invite mallware & spyware onto one's computer. I've tried uninstalling everything from that date and around that date that isn't essential to the operation of the computer, but sadly to no effect. There seems to be a lot of misleading info on the net, so I thought i'd try you folks as i've been on here for years and trust the site implicitly. I would under normal circumstances have dashed down to PC World and paid them to remove it as i'm obviously too thick to deal with it myself, but I lost my job on Thursday and am still hugely in debt after Christmas and am not signing on either so i'm too skint to pay PC World anything. Sorry for the great long essay, but I wanted to clarify as best I could, in one go. Thanks very much in advance for any assistance that any of you guys and gals can render. Cheers, Jim. [/quote]
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