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Google toolbar page appears at Windows Update?
W98se/IE6 SP-1/ Updated to the max.
Every so often when I click on StartWindows Update, I get the Google Toolbar Page, yet the URL remains as http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/. This has happened perhaps 4 times in the past two years. The same has happened on occasion with a shortcut to Google search engine too. To "fix" the shortcut is not a problem, but how do I fix the Windows Update menu Item? And what gives with this, anyway? -- LuckyStrike -------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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Google toolbar page appears at Windows Update?
Never mind. Deleted Cookies and TIF's and it is now working properly.
Doesn't explain why this happens, but I suspect that just like any Mega Business enterprise, there is something shifty about Google as well as Yahoo, AOL and the like. :-\ -- LuckyStrike -------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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Google toolbar page appears at Windows Update?
If the Google Toolbar is installed and turned ON in the
toolbar, it will always show when Internet Explorer (it can even be turned ON in Windows Explorer). It is normal and not an accident or spyware. -- The people think the Constitution protects their rights; But government sees it as an obstacle to be overcome. "LuckyStrike" om wrote in message ... | Never mind. Deleted Cookies and TIF's and it is now working properly. | Doesn't explain why this happens, but I suspect that just like any Mega | Business enterprise, there is something shifty about Google as well as | Yahoo, AOL and the like. :-\ | -- | LuckyStrike | | ---------------------------------------------------------- ---------- | | |
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Google toolbar page appears at Windows Update?
LuckyStrike,
Right click Windows Update on the Start menu. What does it say ? One point, spy|ad|malware has been crafted to run behind legitimate processes. Check your system for there presence here : Do you have parasites http://www.aumha.org/a/noads.htm MowGreen [MVP] *-343-* Never Forgotten LuckyStrike wrote: W98se/IE6 SP-1/ Updated to the max. Every so often when I click on StartWindows Update, I get the Google Toolbar Page, yet the URL remains as http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/. This has happened perhaps 4 times in the past two years. The same has happened on occasion with a shortcut to Google search engine too. To "fix" the shortcut is not a problem, but how do I fix the Windows Update menu Item? And what gives with this, anyway? |
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Google toolbar page appears at Windows Update?
The usual Context menu. Nothing unusual. If you mean to check properties
then it is as follows: Shortcut C:\WINDOWS\Start Menu Size: 264 bytes Target: C:\WINDOWS\WUPDMGR.EXE No malware/ spyware detected (courtesy of Jims site, after I enabled scripting to permit the scan). Ran CWShredder, PestPatrol, and Spybot. Nothing found. It is now "fixed" by removing the cache and perhaps cookies. But why does this happen? As stated, there have been occasions where my desktop shortcut to google would only go to the Google Toolbar (download/info) page. Had to access google by another means, create a new shortcut, and delete the old one. Thanks. -- LuckyStrike -------------------------------------------------------------------- "MowGreen [MVP]" wrote in message ... LuckyStrike, Right click Windows Update on the Start menu. What does it say ? One point, spy|ad|malware has been crafted to run behind legitimate processes. Check your system for there presence here : Do you have parasites http://www.aumha.org/a/noads.htm MowGreen [MVP] *-343-* Never Forgotten |
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Google toolbar page appears at Windows Update?
OK, I did not understand your problem. It does seem
strange, almost as though your host file had been corrupted. "LuckyStrike" om wrote in message ... | Thanks Jim, but I think I was misunderstood. The Windows Update start menu | item didn't go to Windows Update site, instead it opened a *page* in IE. | Namely the Google Toolbar *info and download* page. Of course the Google | toolbar appears in any instance of an open Browser window. BUT when one | clicks Windows Update, the page obtained should be Windows Update site, with | (if one has it installed) or without a Google Toolbar BHO application, and | not any other page. | | Anyway, again, it has been "fixed" by deleting the TIF's and Cookies. | Thanks. | -- | LuckyStrike | | ---------------------------------------------------------- ---------- | "Jim Macklin" wrote in message | ... | If the Google Toolbar is installed and turned ON in the | toolbar, it will always show when Internet Explorer (it can | even be turned ON in Windows Explorer). It is normal and | not an accident or spyware. | | | -- | The people think the Constitution protects their rights; | But government sees it as an obstacle to be overcome. | | | "LuckyStrike" wrote: | | Never mind. Deleted Cookies and TIF's and it is now | working properly. | | Doesn't explain why this happens, but I suspect that just | like any Mega | | Business enterprise, there is something shifty about | Google as well as | | Yahoo, AOL and the like. :-\ | | -- | | LuckyStrike | | -------------------------------------------- | | | | |
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Google toolbar page appears at Windows Update?
There's an old zen saying that applies to Win 9x :
Yesterday it worked. Today it is not working. Windows is like that. MowGreen [MVP] LuckyStrike wrote: The usual Context menu. Nothing unusual. If you mean to check properties then it is as follows: Shortcut C:\WINDOWS\Start Menu Size: 264 bytes Target: C:\WINDOWS\WUPDMGR.EXE No malware/ spyware detected (courtesy of Jims site, after I enabled scripting to permit the scan). Ran CWShredder, PestPatrol, and Spybot. Nothing found. It is now "fixed" by removing the cache and perhaps cookies. But why does this happen? As stated, there have been occasions where my desktop shortcut to google would only go to the Google Toolbar (download/info) page. Had to access google by another means, create a new shortcut, and delete the old one. Thanks. |
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Google toolbar page appears at Windows Update?
Another one is: "If it's not broken it's a miracle; if it's working it's
supernatural... and it won't be working for long." ;-) -- LuckyStrike -------------------------------------------------------------------- "MowGreen [MVP]" wrote in message ... There's an old zen saying that applies to Win 9x : Yesterday it worked. Today it is not working. Windows is like that. MowGreen [MVP] |
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Google toolbar page appears at Windows Update?
I was running a host file for a while Jim, but then after a crash several
months ago, I haven't re-installed one. I am pretty sure I don't have one at the moment, but there are a lot of things about PC's and OS's etc., I know little or nothing about. ;-) actually -- :-( Thanks again. -- LuckyStrike -------------------------------------------------------------------- "Jim Macklin" wrote in message ... OK, I did not understand your problem. It does seem strange, almost as though your host file had been corrupted. "LuckyStrike" wrote: | Thanks Jim, but I think I was misunderstood. The Windows Update start menu | item didn't go to Windows Update site, instead it opened a *page* in IE. | Namely the Google Toolbar *info and download* page. Of course the Google | toolbar appears in any instance of an open Browser window. BUT when one | clicks Windows Update, the page obtained should be Windows Update site, with | (if one has it installed) or without a Google Toolbar BHO application, and | not any other page. | | Anyway, again, it has been "fixed" by deleting the TIF's and Cookies. | Thanks. | -- | LuckyStrike | | ---------------------------------------------------------- |
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