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Mlamlah

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Slender Man: Giving a Piggyback
« on: September 20, 2012, 12:59:23 am »

So, Slender Man, being the kind patron he is, decided to bring along a rather invasive browser Hijacker called chatzum, or search safer onto my computer. I can only assume that they both simply want to frazzle me. This little creature, while not exactly evil (On a scale of Innocent to Hitler i dub it douche) is rather annoying, forcing me to have to switch around my settings over and over again. Not only that, but it refuses to die. Any advice?
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Re: Slender Man: Giving a Piggyback
« Reply #1 on: September 20, 2012, 01:02:35 am »

Find more reliable sites to download from? =P Jokes aside, use google to try and find a way to remove that program? Google search: How do I remove chatzum from my computer?
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Re: Slender Man: Giving a Piggyback
« Reply #2 on: September 20, 2012, 01:03:13 am »

Malware bytes, perhaps?
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Re: Slender Man: Giving a Piggyback
« Reply #3 on: September 20, 2012, 02:54:09 am »

It seems there is a little debate about wether or not it's malware, it's mostly just difficult to remove, i guess i'll just keep trying XD. Damn, i hate turning my computer to safe mode, dunno why.
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Re: Slender Man: Giving a Piggyback
« Reply #4 on: September 20, 2012, 08:05:19 am »

i hate turning my computer to safe mode, dunno why.

Because it smacks of defeat. Don't let the machines win!
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Re: Slender Man: Giving a Piggyback
« Reply #5 on: September 20, 2012, 10:15:21 am »

Honestly, if it resists being uninstalled, I'd go ahead and treat it as malware.
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Re: Slender Man: Giving a Piggyback
« Reply #6 on: September 20, 2012, 10:38:46 am »

Honestly, if it resists being uninstalled, I'd go ahead and treat it as malware.

Thus why Norton and most DRM are hated.

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Re: Slender Man: Giving a Piggyback
« Reply #7 on: September 20, 2012, 12:53:34 pm »

Hehe, yeah. Things that take over your browser without asking you are annoying. I recently re-installed bittorrent to download black mesa. Suddenly, i randomly have a extra toolbar and another home page and standard search machine.
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Re: Slender Man: Giving a Piggyback
« Reply #8 on: September 20, 2012, 01:08:52 pm »

Hehe, yeah. Things that take over your browser without asking you are annoying. I recently re-installed bittorrent to download black mesa. Suddenly, i randomly have a extra toolbar and another home page and standard search machine.
Well in their defence they do repeatedly say it's free as long as you use their stuff.

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Re: Slender Man: Giving a Piggyback
« Reply #9 on: September 20, 2012, 01:42:50 pm »

And, if you pay attention during the install, I'm pretty sure you can disable it.

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Re: Slender Man: Giving a Piggyback
« Reply #10 on: September 20, 2012, 01:44:59 pm »

Uncheck yonder boxes, good chap. Wot wot.
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Re: Slender Man: Giving a Piggyback
« Reply #11 on: September 20, 2012, 03:40:20 pm »

Hehe, yeah. Things that take over your browser without asking you are annoying. I recently re-installed bittorrent to download black mesa. Suddenly, i randomly have a extra toolbar and another home page and standard search machine.
Those are given as options in the installer you know, they're not mandatory.
Or at least, I've never noticed any bittorrent homepages or toolbars being forcibly installed.
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Re: Slender Man: Giving a Piggyback
« Reply #12 on: September 20, 2012, 05:02:33 pm »

I went through the registry and hunted it down, as well as the toolbar, and removed all of the settings it had latched onto my computer with.
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