For weeks, possibly months – perchance a millennium – I tried to purge the search engine scourge, Babylon, from my Firefox browser.
The scourge appeared one day whilst I opened a tab. Instead of seeing my beloved Google home page, I saw that blight Babylon, not the ancient city, which would have been awesome.
I stared at the strange search urchin on my screen and said, “Bloody hell, what are you? I command you in the name of the Lord to depart the toolbar.”
It didn’t. It continued bullying Firefox into submission and took over Tab Town.
I searched for answers. The They-Sayers said:
- Clear the cache
- Clear history
- Check your addons
I did everything they said, but they were wrong.
And the unwelcome search squatter continued its incursion while I continued to seek counsel from other web tech scholars.
They said:
- Block Babylon under Firefox Options
Nary, this was naught the right answer. Alas, Babylon remained and stalked me like a malware hooligan in the night.
One day after an exhaustive search around the globe, I found the One with answers – Dedicated 2-viruses, a site that cleared my computer and my head of infected Babylon residue. And poof, as suddenly as Babylon appeared, it was gone.
THE END
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I hate that kind of shit. Hate. It.
It’s insidious. That’s when I say, “Stick your head out the window and yell, ‘I can’t take it anymore.'” I did that in writing this post.
Btw, I just got on the computer. I had a migraine for most of the day – head malware.
No, I am free of it. So was it a virus? Nasty people!
They call it malware (malicious software), stealth programs loaded onto your computer from other downloaded programs.
I’m glad you’re free of it.
I know I have lots of tracking codes in my browser. They load it as you visit sites, for advertising purposes. It gathers info on what links you click online. It doesn’t work very well because I’m not interested in any of the spam they send me.
“Bloody hell, what are you? I command you in the name of the Lord to depart the toolbar.”
I don’t understand why that line didn’t work on Babylon. It made ME leave the toolbar immediately.
LOL! Hey the line worked in the Exorcist, sort of.
Bablyon sounds just like a cat. It was probably invented by a cat in one of their futile (so far) attempts to take over the world.
Sigh.
Evil Twin must be behind the secret malware takeover. She is likely sending the cats off to do her bidding. Perhaps catnip is involved.
No and I’ve not even heard of this search engine. I don’t want to get acquainted either. Just saying.
Have a terrific day. 🙂
No, you don’t want to be acquainted with it. It’s pure evil.
Have a great day!
Hey Lauren
Go to Control Panel, click Programs (software).
Uninstall “Browser Manager” +
“Bprotector” + “Object Installer” + “Babylon Toolbar
on IE”
Then follow the
relevant steps:
———————-Firefox —————————
> Open a new Firefox window (website)
> Go to Tools> Options> and go to change your
order, the Home. ( f.e http://www.google.de)
and click OK.
> Remove the search engine of Babylon by clicking
the small arrow next to the icon of Babylon
> Manage Search Engines
> select Babylon and Remove
> Close Firefox and open again
> write in the address Bar “about:config ” and
click Enter
> Write in the search engine “Babylon.”
> Click on any ‘Babylon’ preferences with the right mouse
button and select “Reset” In the following video you can see how to change TAB URL :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yPX-ZJ5fQc&feature=related
If you delete the browser manger
,and you still get Babylon search·
Navigate to the
key HKLMSYSTEMCurrentControlsetservices, locate the Browser
Manager subkey here and hit the delete key
·
Go to HKLMSoftware and
delete Browser Manager from here
·
Remove the dll
from HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows
NTCurrentVersionWindowsAppinit_Dlls
Thank you!!