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Yahoo! search - Hijack and popups (2020 Search Toolbar)

Asked by PaladinWhite in New Internet Users

Tags: search, 2020, yahoo, hijack

I use Yahoo! quite often for both work-related and personal searches. Recently I have encountered a problem when using the service. I am encountering search hijacks and multitudes of popups.

When I enter ABCD as my search term, the results page that is returned does not contain valid Yahoo! search results, rather, the links that are given are

"Find ABCD Using the FREE 2020 Search Toolbar!"
"Find ABCD at SMARTpages.com - Online Yellow Pages"
"Finding ABCD is a Click Away at 2020Search.com"

Also, once the 'search' is completed and I get the bogus results, I get a popup. The title bar is "ABCD - Microsoft Internet Explorer", and it displays the following links:

"Find abcd Using the FREE 2020Search Toolbar!"
"Find abcd with Free WebSearch Tools"

I have had problems with malware before, everything from popups to homepage hijackers to keyloggers. I have managed to get rid of all of them through various means, but nothing seems to work on this problem. I've

1. Run Spybot S&D and cleaned everything it detected
2. Run AdAware and cleaned everything it detected
3. Run SpyHunter and cleaned everything it detected
4. Run Trend Micro HouseCall and cleaned everything it detected
5. Run HijackThis and cleaned everything I didn't recognize
6. Cleared my cookies
7. Run RegEdit and manually cleaned anything suspicious

I'm at my wits end. I've run a couple searches through Lycos and Hotbot to try and find solutions, but I just come up with more pages advertising the '2020 Search Toolbar'. I'm also getting popups randomly when I browse pages I'm familiar with, I don't know if they're related, but they just started recently, along with the problem described above. PopUpStopper works on some, but not on others.

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Tags: search, 2020, yahoo, hijack
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