Firefox scrubbed clean fairly quickly, but it was Chrome that really seemed determined to change search provider and home page. Interestingly, Chrome proved more susceptible to this than Firefox. Thankfully my girlfriend doesn't use IE, so aside from purging all extensions and resetting all defaults, I didn't have to concentrate on that. Deleted all local profile folders from %APP_DATA% and other hidden locations.ġ0) Manually entered the registry and deleted anything I identified as Search Protect, conduit, Firefox, and Chrome.ġ1) Manually delete any files identified by anything in the registry or earlier steps But I'm wary of doing that.ġ) Use SysInternals Process Explorer to check for and kill any monitoring processĢ) Use SysInternals Autoruns to find and remove all autorun info that I didn't recognise and to identify which executables may be doing itģ) Uninstall component through control panelĥ) Change home page settings in browsers (restart, and observed that it only worked until the browser restarted)Ħ) Removed all browser plugins and extensions on all browsers, where I didn't recognise the extensionĨ) Viewed source of Firefox browser config and still couldn't find it, but found Chrome had some crappy values referring to this stuffĩ) Downloaded Chrome and Firefox, then uninstalled Chrome and Firefox. Most Googling finds pages telling you to download this or that scan and remove tools. I'm afraid I can't help a great deal as it was a one-off brute force effort.

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