Here is what I've done so far.

• Ran malwarebytes- didn't find it.
  
  
• Ran Spybot Search & Destroy- Found it, says it removed it. (each time)
  
  
• Went through the Registry and deleted all references to it.
  
  
• Ran Revo Uninstaller.
  
  
• Used FileASSASSIN

I ran all of these in safe mode, but even in safe mode my home page would be reset to babylon search. I've deleted firefox, and even downloaded Chrome, babylon was ready to go. Of course it's on IE Chrome, and FF. I bet if I downloaded safari it would place itself in there as well.

I need thoughts before I end up wiping an entire OS for one friggin virus. (I don't care if it is called "adware", if it can't be removed, and installs itself it's a virus.)

Any help appreciated.

Brad

had the same problem.. just go to settings and totally reset your browser. it worked for me

I had something similar that was hiding in the system restore files. It would come back even without doing a system restore until I deleted those files.

Did you try deseleting it from IE? (Toolbar)

System Restore?(If it's not a crippling virus, it may not have foobarred this)
Look for the install folder and restore it from a date prior to that...

Boot from a Linux CD and scan it?

Deleting the addon itself does nothing. I googled it and then there was a walkthrough on how to delete it.

quote Originally posted by Celthora87GT: had the same problem.. just go to settings and totally reset your browser. it worked for me

Right, but it's still in the system, and keeps reappearing regardless of what I do to it.

I also need to remove it from IE, (Chrome I can just remove), but it's where it will add itself to any browser I install.

Brad

hmmmm delete all browsers then run revo unistaller then reinstall a fresh copy from another computer on a flash drive?

My mom had this. I had to uninstall it in windows, then disable and uninstall it in the browser. Piece o cake. Look in the control panel for it under installed programs.

Hey twofatguys

In order to Remove the Babylon toolbar click on the follow link:
http://support.babylon.com/...arch-the-web-babylon

Or Follow those instructions :

Go to Control Panel, click Programs (software).

Uninstall "Browser Manager" + "Bprotector" + "Object Installer" + "Babylon Toolbar on IE"

Then depending on which browser you use , follow the relevant steps:

----------------------Firefox ---------------------------

> Open a new Firefox window (website)

> Go to Tools> Options> and go to change your order, the Home. ( f.e www.google.de) and click OK.

> Remove the search engine of Babylon by clicking the small arrow next to the icon of Babylon

> Manage Search Engines

> select Babylon and Remove

> Close Firefox and open again

> write in the address Bar "about:config " and click Enter

> Write in the search engine "Babylon."

> Click on any 'Babylon' preferences with the right mouse button and select "Reset"

In the following video you can see how to change TAB URL :

Firefox - How to open a new tab to a specific website - YouTube

----------------------------- Chrome -------------------------------------------------

Open Google Chrome and click on the "wrench" icon:

Click> Settings , choose the option "Open a particular page or set of pages."

Click "Set Pages" on page Babylon and delete from the list.

To change the search engine in Google Chrome, please follow the instructions below:

Open Google Chrome on the "wrench" icon on the right side of the address bar, click:

Settings> Under "Search", click "Manage Search Engines ...".

If you see "Babylon Search" as a standard (default), select please another search engine as the default from (Google, Bing, etc.). Only then will you Babylon You can remove by clicking the little 'X'.

--------------------------------- Internet Explorer (IE) ------------ -------------------------------------

Open your Internet Explorer browser, click on "Tools", then "Internet Options" and in the section "Tabs" click on "Settings". It will open a new window, on the option "When a new tab is opened, open:" in the drop-down menu please choose "Your first homepage". Then click OK, Apply and OK.

for any further help or assistance feel free to contact us via :

18668086361
Support@Babylon.com

or Chat with us at :

Babylon - http://support.babylon.com/...il=/_promptType=chat

Cheers
Babylon Support

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Keeps it Simple

quote Originally posted by twofatguys:

"Keeps it simple" - Babylon Support

You couldn't get me to click that link for a thousand bucks.

Google must have this site zeroed in.

I got it a while back and in IE I`m pretty sure that I did as the instructions above stated and got rid of it.

quote Originally posted by Monkeyman: You couldn't get me to click that link for a thousand bucks.

They stuck adware on my computer that I had issues removing, even with the help from a guy in here that has a degree (and is dang good) in computer science. The download was form a website with a fake download that installed this crap on my computer with no warning whatsoever, and the item I was looking for wasn't even in the download. Avast went nuts as soon as I clicked "install", and I stopped it, and STILL had all these problems. I almost had to install a new OS becaue of this crap, and I still may as I simply have it "paused" and not actually removed yet, and they want me to click a GD link.

It would take a lot of sweet talking at least before I ever followed instructions from them. I only hope that Anon starts taking on dirtbags like this soon.

Brad

Brad,

I totally got hit up by this earlier. I don't often get this type of stuff on my machines. I know where I got it and have corrected the issue. Though the all came off my system fairly easily.

I am burning a new copy of my Win7 disk and am going to format regardless. Sucks though because my copy of Win8 is at my shop and I'd love to test drive it, but not enough to go up there and bust my 10 day vacation.

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Amber is the color of her energy.

Heh, Scouts honor, after running through and manually removing this from my registry, and a few other places, I can still run spybot and it comes up with several instances of it. And it's not going away.

I've got it blocked to where it's not able to do anything ( I think ), but it's the T-1000 of crapware so far.

Brad