Undesired favorites

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Can anyone help?

About once a week, despite my deleting them, I get three
links appearing in my 'favorites'. They are always the
same three links, and are to undesireable (sex) sites.

How is it possible that links can be added to favorites
without permission, and is there anything I can do to stop
it from happening?

Any help is appreciated.
 
Do an onlinescan at http://www.ravantivirus.com/scan/indexie.php

Download Spybot S&D http://www.safer-networking.org/ *
Download Ad-aware http://lavasoft.element5.com/choose_language/ *
Download CWShredder http://www.merijn.org/files/cwshredder.zip *

Protect your pc with
SpywareBlaster http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html *
SpywareGuard http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareguard.html

* = Update the definition files within the program as the first step.


----- G wrote: -----

Can anyone help?

About once a week, despite my deleting them, I get three
links appearing in my 'favorites'. They are always the
same three links, and are to undesireable (sex) sites.

How is it possible that links can be added to favorites
without permission, and is there anything I can do to stop
it from happening?

Any help is appreciated.
 
G said:
Can anyone help?

About once a week, despite my deleting them, I get three
links appearing in my 'favorites'. They are always the
same three links, and are to undesireable (sex) sites.

How is it possible that links can be added to favorites
without permission, and is there anything I can do to stop
it from happening?

Any help is appreciated.
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First eliminate any scumware.
See
Dealing with Unwanted Spyware, Parasites, Toolbars and Search Engines
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm

Note that AdAware and SpyBot S & D will each catch some things the other
won't. Also, each need to be updated before every use, even when just
downloaded. There's also a lot more to do than just those two programs.

If trying everything at that site does not fix the problem please post back
in the same thread.

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Frank Saunders, MS-MVP IE/OE
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