Lately I’ve been trying to get to some things on my favourites list (and things I click from a google search) and I get rerouted to XXX.commonname.com/en/PowerSearch/ (link deliberated broke) suggesting a new “search” for what I was looking for. If I do a search from here the page I was looking for comes up but now I gotta look at it framed within the powersearch page!! WTF? Netscape has no problem going straight to the address. Ad-Aware has turned up nothing and I can’t imagine what settings I could have changed to make this occur.
Any suggestion? (other than the call to boycott p-wersearch) Me getting mightily p-o’ed.
Hi CarnalK
Close all Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer browser windows
Go to your start menu and select “Settings”, “Control Panel”
Select “Add/Remove Programs”
Select CommonName from the list and hit the add/remove button
Once the uninstall message displays, reboot your computer
CommonName is now uninstalled!
Daizy
With Ad-Aware 5.83, I was having much better luck using Spybot - Search and Destroy, as hawthorne noted. I have, however, seen several people mention that the newer Ad-Aware 6.0 has been doing a better job of getting rid of programs that rediriect your browser.
Thanks tonnes all. Esp Daizy, had no idea it would be sitting there all obvious.
I will also take the advice and switch to Spybot.
Honestly what were they thinking? Just upping their visit counter? It seemed like 10-20% of my favourite list/search results was sending me there. Outrageous!
You’re most welcome CarnalK
Happy to hear you got it all sorted. You might want to open a browser window…go up to tools…then internet options…and under the advanced tab…ensure you’ve got no check marks beside “Enable install on demand”.
I’m still a fan of Ad-aware (updated to 6), though I’ve heard good things about Spybot as well.
