Babylon, uwavou and easyinline

mrstrw

Does anyone know whether babylon, uwavou and easy inline are connected? my husband uses firefox and I use IE. firefox keeps on defaulting to babylon search which is just annoying, we won't do a babylon search but I don't know if it's legitimate or malicious. We get pop ups/ new windows opened for uwavou and then in both browsers words are underlined and if you click on them you would get an advert for something to do with easy inline. I fear that spyware has been installed. We have norton internet security and full scans reveal nothing and I have downloaded spybot which seemed to pick up an issue with babylon but firefox still defaulted to babylon and the uwavou and easy inline are still going. It's really annoying me now and I feel like I need to change all my passwords from another computer. Does anyone know what is the simplest way for a non techie to get rid of these?

GunJack

1.disable babylon within the browser's add-ons section.
2. if any of them are showing in add/remove programs list (Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs(XP) or Programs(W7 or vista) uninstall from there.
3. download, install, update and run quick scan with malwarebytes:-
http://www.filehippo.com/download_malwarebytes_anti_malware/

(untick the free trial of the full version during the installation process)
ensure everything it finds is ticked and Remove Selected. It may need a reboot to complete the cleaning.
4. Clear all temp files and old registry keys with CCleaner:-
http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/

Whether it's malicious in it's own right or not, babylon's a PITA and at least lets other stuff onto your pc

debitcardmayhem

Also when you remove babylon, you will probably still see it is your home page in FF, go to the site you wish to use for home eg https://www.google.co.uk , then go to Firefox Options, General, Home Page either select use current page or set it as blank

GunJack

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

Also when you remove babylon, you will probably still see it is your home page in FF, go to the site you wish to use for home eg https://www.google.co.uk , then go to Firefox Options, General, Home Page either select use current page or set it as blank

Yes, well reminded DCM

mrstrw

Thank you GunJack and Debitcardmayhem.

I found the easyinline in the programmes and so uninstalled it. I think I have resolved the other two. I'm not being asked to do surveys and babylon doesn't seem to be rearing it's ugly head. Fingers crossed. Took me a glug of coffee to work out what PITA meant this am!

GunJack

mrstrw wrote: »

Took me a glug of coffee to work out what PITA meant this am!

waddya mean, it's almost afternoon already