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Ärende: Fidonews Vol 29 No 31 July 30, 2012 Page: 7
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Getting Rid of uwvou.com
By Roger Nelson, 1:3828/7


* Forwarded (from: COFFEE_KLATSCH) by Roger Nelson using timEd/386 1.10.y2k+.
* Originally from Roger Nelson (1:3828/7) to mark lewis, et al.
* Original dated: Sat Jul 28, 07:46

On Fri Jul-27-2012 11:36, mark lewis (1:3634/12) wrote to Roger Nelson:

Subject: uwvou.com popup

[...] After running MalwareBytes on the entire system, which took forever (I
actually fell asleep at the keyboard) and checking MSE's log, I have no
untoward programs on my system, which I suspected all along and that suspicion
was driving me crazy because I couldn't understand why a system as protected as
mine could allow this to happen.

Of course, the blame could have been placed on our favorites of "Operator
Error" or "Operator naivete".  (-:

So, I checked that little devil mentioned below on the Internet with google and
came up with several possibilities, most of which didn't work.  The program
that kept popping up was "uwvou.com", which is a redirect to another site or
sites and I discovered the site(s) to be random.  One suggestion I found was to
look for a program called "arcadecandy" and delete it and restart the system.
After a search failed to yield such a name, I then tried another promising
suggestion that said to look for a program called "redirect.com" and that
failed, too.

The ultimate solution here was to follow the third and last suggestion, which
solved the problem.  I ran FF 14.0.1, clicked on Help > Troubleshooting
Information and then clicked on the following two buttons:

1. Copy all to clipboard
2. Reset Firefox

Bingo!  No more "uwvou.com" popups.

All of my favorites and recent bookmarks remained, including history, so I was
ecstatic that I found something that worked.  I hope it works for anyone else
inflicted with that same program.

[...]



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