# Babylon translator - a virus?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babylon-translator-a-virus/550883>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 20, 2010, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babylon-translator-a-virus/550883 "2010-08-20T16:24:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Daylate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9dc877/32.png) [@Daylate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daylate)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babylon-translator-a-virus/550883/1 "2010-08-20T16:24:23Z")

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This is a warning to anyone out there in Doperland about some software called “Babylon Translator”. I somehow got this horrible thing on my computer (no idea of how this happened as I do all my Internet stuff within Sandboxie), and had to jump through all sorts of hoops (including a System Restore) to get rid of it.

One of the things it does is to usurp your Internet home page with its own page. Removing this page does no good - even after using Revo uninstaller to get rid of all vestiges of Babylon it would come back on the next reboot. Finally, restoring the system back to a date well before the Babylon infection seems to have fixed the problem, but we shall see. Searching on “Remove Babylon” shows that quite a few other folks have had this same problem.

Anyway, watch out for this one. The Babylon site appears to be legitimate, but it sure behaves like a virus.