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clicking search page links,results in randomly redirected URL pagessvchost.exe and rundll32.exe used to load malware/spyware DLL
Today, for the second time in a month, I was asked to help remove a spyware/malware from a computer running Windows XP SP3. In both cases, the symptoms were identical. The user immediately noticed something was wrong because their [...]

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How to remove Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant Extension from Firefox 3.0 and Firefox 3.5

I just upgraded to Firefox 3.5 and realized that Microsoft snuck in (spyware-like installation, without user acknowledgment) an extension to Firefox 3.0 that is not compatible with Firefox 3.5, that extension is the Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant 1.0.
Microsoft has released a newer [...]

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Why does Microsoft make it so difficult to find the links to download Internet Explorer 8 as a standalone installer? It use to be at the bottom of the stub-installer download page. Well after some digging, I found them and here are direct links to the standalone off-line installers of the release [...]

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