Babylon search removal

koolpc

koolpc

koolpc

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Babylon search has taken over my Int Explorer. Cant seem to remove it.

I do use Chrome too but sometimes i need to use IE.

Anyone come across this searcher 'Babylon' and how to remove it?
 
Go to tools and you will remove the babylon search info there. It also changes your home and new tab page. Just reset them back to normal after removing babylon as a search engine.

I would run malwarebytes as well to be safe.
 
Swordfish said:
Go to tools and you will remove the babylon search info there. It also changes your home and new tab page. Just reset them back to normal after removing babylon as a search engine.

I would run malwarebytes as well to be safe.
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Did all that. Only way it worked for me was to upgrade my IE which was on 8 and now on 9 and with chrome, i reinstalled it. Gone now.
 
Tbh worst case issue I've had with this was an updated installer slipped this plus the other couple pieces of crapware and kept reinstalling itself. Turn out it was hiding in a java file in a firefox plugin/profile folder (forge which).
 
gf downloaded Black mesa for me and managed to riddle my system with this malware. I have done all the above, removed the add-on, reinstalled firefox, manually deleted every reference to babylon on my system and still it resets my homepage to babylon everytime I start firefox.

How do you permanently get rid of this malware?
 
Like I said it hides as a js file somewhere in the FF folder. I've had to remove this twice now so I throw in a Ccleaner registry purge for good measure.
 
WTF!? After trying plenty of removal tips, at least the top 7-8 ones on google, I just uninstalled firefox and deleted all my personal history. Fresh install of firefox and BABYLON is still there! How on earth do you get rid of this malware?
 
Removing firefox does not remove everything. However if you've removed all traces of it and it appears only in firefox then you're basically done. All you need to do is edit the js pref/user files (text editor e.g. notepad++), remove the traces then remove the entries from about:config.

Post 5 onwards http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=2405087&f=38

If you have a nas with regular images then resorting would be easier, however formatting without that is false economy time wise. Oh and people tend to look for solutions because they don't want to format.

Finally; I've downloaded the Black Mesa torrent from their site twice today and it contains nothing but the exe, md5 & 7z files - however there appears to be q fair few places trying to exploit it's popularity...
 
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