A couple of weeks ago I removed (or thought I had) from a friend's PC all trace of what looks like a nasty bit of malware called iask123, which had hijacked her browser.
I spent 20 minutes picking through the Registry, removing every occurrence, and then deleted the directories it had created in Program files, and to all appearances it had gone. But now the wretched thing is back, and I am wondering how to uninstall it and prevent it recurring.
Curiously, Google returns hardly any results on iask123, and given that is presumably a search bar I imagine Google are deliberately suppressing results for some reason. (If most results would be negative, along the lines of this post, perhaps Google is suppressing results so as not to open themselves to an accusation of putting their competitors in a bad light!)
Anyone else seen this thing? It may be related to something called Conduit.
I spent 20 minutes picking through the Registry, removing every occurrence, and then deleted the directories it had created in Program files, and to all appearances it had gone. But now the wretched thing is back, and I am wondering how to uninstall it and prevent it recurring.
Curiously, Google returns hardly any results on iask123, and given that is presumably a search bar I imagine Google are deliberately suppressing results for some reason. (If most results would be negative, along the lines of this post, perhaps Google is suppressing results so as not to open themselves to an accusation of putting their competitors in a bad light!)
Anyone else seen this thing? It may be related to something called Conduit.
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