Is it Firefox, or my Windows set-up?

[Benchwayze]

Hi folks,

My Firefox browser has started behaving in a peculiar manner.

Some pages insist on starting up in some weird format. (I think it HTML) and won't go any further unless I go into private browsing mode. or reload the page first.

Something called Babylon keeps hi-jacking my home page, ad despite removing this Babylon 'program' tme and again, and disabling it in tools-extensions, it keeps coming back.

Safari is a mysterious beast. Opera is the devil to navigate and set up and with Chrome come adverts galore, which adblock doesn't seem to block.

It is causing me to spit lead shot here. Any knowledge please?

 

[misterfish]

A search shows that Babylon is a very pernicious redirector type virus that is difficult to remove. Have a look at http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=61869 which details the manual procedures required. However, it seems that many only manage to 'remove' it by saving their data to another disk, reformatting the hard disk and doing a complete operating system and application reinstallation.

It seems that Spybot Search and Destroy can find the infection but not automatically remove it.

Misterfish

 

[Benchwayze]

Thanks for that MF.

I have started saving files elsewhere in any case.
Looks like another reformat then. Plus Getting the right drivers first, so the PC picks up automatically on wireless.
Obliged for the info.

Regards

 

[Grahamshed]

Just out of interest, what is mysterious about Safari ? It is an apple browser and I love it.

 

[Benchwayze]

Graham,

I find it non-intuitive. All the tools, options etc. are hidden. and one has to click all kinds of buttons , spanner logos, and stars, just to set up preferences such as , home page buttons, home page itself, spell-check... and the list goes on. Perhaps tiresome is the correct word from one who has grown used to the simplicity of Firefox, and IE (Albeit that IE is a snail)! :roll:

 

[Deejay]

Morning John

Have you tried a system restore?

It appears to have cleared the same problem on my laptop running Win 7. I searched for files named 'babylon' to find out when it arrived and restored to a previous time.

cheers

Dave

 

[JakeS]

(For what it's worth, the Chrome advert problem that you described before is certainly from malware like this as well - once you've cleaned your PC, you should find that problem disappears too.)

 

[Blister]

It is an apple browser and I love it.

Me too :mrgreen:

 

[Benchwayze]

Hi DJ,

Haven't tried a restore yet, but all my anti malware and Anti-virus programs say there's nothing suspicious on the disc. Not that I take that for granted when all my browsers have shown problems. (I only have two installed at any one time BTW. Only because I daren't remove IE because maybe Windows wouldn't work if I did! :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Thanks Jake. The adverts disappeared after I scoured the system with AVG.