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what's with this "huntbar" search shiet?

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Old Apr 24, 2003 | 06:39 PM
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Default what's with this "huntbar" search shiet?

now everytime i search the net with google,
this stupid ing "huntbar" windows pop out.
it is so annoying, especially the computer freezes for like 30 sec 'till the page is loaded up.

imma freakin' sue this stupid search engine company,
it's pissing me off so much especially this sneeky thing just installed itself and not letting me to disable it.

"DIE!"
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Old Apr 24, 2003 | 10:12 PM
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Here's an interesting article on Google and privacy you might find interesting...

http://www.google-watch.org/bigbro.html
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Old Apr 25, 2003 | 10:42 PM
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seung, once you stop looking at porn sites.. download ad-aware... it gets ride of hidden files on your computer...

the first time i ran it.. it found 200 things in my registry
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Old Apr 26, 2003 | 01:06 AM
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darn, i gotta stop looking at porn
i have the huntsbar too!
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Old Apr 26, 2003 | 07:28 AM
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Get Ad-Aware! http://www.lavasoft.de/ It has nothing to do with Google - "HuntBar is a search-hijacker from trafficsyndicate.com, with various additional features depending on version." From http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite/HuntBar.html

Check your IE security setting - make sure it's at least at Medium.
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Old Apr 26, 2003 | 03:58 PM
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Originally posted by dkhl
seung, once you stop looking at porn sites...
you mean i can't look at "jen love hewitte" thread anymore?!

nooooo...
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Old Apr 28, 2003 | 09:22 AM
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What's a huntbar? Anyone have a screenshot?

It doesn't sound like anything that has to do with Google. It's more likely something that's part of Internet Explorer, or that was installed by something else.
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Old Apr 28, 2003 | 09:31 AM
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That link Elistan posted has good information on how to remove the HuntBar. Just took a quick look, and there's also lots of information available if you do a Google search for "remove HuntBar" or something similar.

Here's one site that has short, easy instructions on how to remove it: http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/Darnit.htm#huntbar
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