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Vinny Gullotta - 01 Jun 2004 15:26 GMT

I just found this software called HijackThis, which scans and allows
you to clean your registry (many of you probably already know and use
this). Anyways, I was wondering if it is a bad thing to delete these
registry keys. If I just delete them, is IE going to stop functioning?
Do I have to actually go in with regedit to change them?

Thanks in advance,
Vinny

R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Search Bar =
http://websearch.drsnsrch.com/sidesearch.cgi?id=
R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Search Page =
http://websearch.drsnsrch.com/sidesearch.cgi?id=
R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Search Bar =
http://websearch.drsnsrch.com/sidesearch.cgi?id=
R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Search Page =
http://websearch.drsnsrch.com/sidesearch.cgi?id=
R0 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search,CustomizeSearch
= http://websearch.drsnsrch.com/sidesearch.cgi?id=
R0 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search,SearchAssistant
= http://websearch.drsnsrch.com/sidesearch.cgi?id=
R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchURL,(Default) =
websearch.drsnsrch.com/q.cgi?q=

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Ricky - 02 Jun 2004 00:01 GMT

For instructions on how to use it; you have to post the log it
produces here:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/forums

|I just found this software called HijackThis, which scans and allows
| you to clean your registry (many of you probably already know and use
[quoted text clipped - 16 lines]
| = http://websearch.drsnsrch.com/sidesearch.cgi?id=
| R0 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet

Explorer\Search,SearchAssistant

| = http://websearch.drsnsrch.com/sidesearch.cgi?id=
| R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchURL,(Default) =
| websearch.drsnsrch.com/q.cgi?q=

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Saravanan - 22 Jun 2004 11:33 GMT

> For instructions on how to use it; you have to post the log it
> produces here:
[quoted text clipped - 27 lines]
> | R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchURL,(Default) =
> | websearch.drsnsrch.com/q.cgi?q=

HijackThis is NOT a registry cleaning tool . It helps in removing
spy programs . Before removing anything, you first post the log
into a spyware forum for expert comments.

Then , you may kill any key as per their advice .

==

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