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Old 05-04-2003, 08:31 PM
Bottle of Smoke Bottle of Smoke is offline
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How do I get rid of a porn link that insinuated itself in my IE context menu?

I guess the titles describes my question. I clicked on a link during a Google search that launched a Porn Site From Hell that did all manner of irritating things, including installing a new folder in my favorites folder, new icons on my desktop, etc. I got rid of everything (I think) except a link that is in my right-click menu in Internet Explorer.

Any idea on how I go about getting rid of it? Does it involve editing the registry? If so, I've never done that before so I'm throwing myself on the expertise of the, well, experts.
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Old 05-04-2003, 08:36 PM
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Well, here I go again. Try Adaware orSpybot. Between the two of them they can remove almost any scumware.
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Old 05-04-2003, 10:24 PM
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I already have Adaware and I even ran it after I noticed all the stuff that appeared on my system. It didn't do anything for the link in my IE context menu though.
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Old 05-04-2003, 10:51 PM
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Clean Up IE's Right-Click Menu
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Old 05-04-2003, 11:30 PM
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astro -- Thanks a million! That's just what I was looking for.

Q.E.D. - Your reply was helpful in a different sort of way. It got me thinking that I hadn't updated my Ad-aware reference files in a while, so I hopped over to the lavasoft site and downloaded the updates. It wound up catching a bunch of stuff I missed when I last did a scan. So thanks for the reminder
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