unwanted porn tool bar

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Susan A

My son opened a scam email and followed the links to a
porn site. Now we have an unwanted tool bar, and a
shortcut on the desktop called "portal search."
Properties won't tell us where the origin resides, and
the darn thing is causing problems with the running of my
computer.

My son would be very happy (but not as happy as I would
be) if someone could tell us how to get rid of
this "portal search" thing.

THANKS!
 
You may try to get rid of it by using add/remove programs (start-.>control
panel->add or remove programs) or if you do not see the applications you may
remove it manually by using the search tool. Go to start->search->all files
and folders. Then write the key word for your search or whatever it is
displeyed in your desktop and click on search. Once you have the file list
simply delete all the unwanted files. Do not forget to empy the recycle bin
afterwards.

I hope it will help

Fab
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Go tt
 
You may also want to try "ad aware". You can download it
from download.com. I've had good luck with it getting rid
of unwanted tool bars.
Joe Neil
 
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