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What is and how to remove qbyrd.com

rruwalton

ISP Rep
Happy New Year

I booted up my pc this morning and the tab that loads up google showed the following in the url address window:

http://www.qbyrd.com/web?q=http://google.co.uk/&o=15529&l=dis&hss=srch

This is not the first time I have seen the qbyrd.com on my pc.

I would appreciate some help in removing whatever is lurking on my pc so I no longer see this. I have run superantispyware on my system which found nothing and my AVG 2011 Internet Security does not deal with it.

Thank you

regards
Richard
 
I see something similar, albeit not the same URL, on my wife's laptop. When she opens a new tab it pops up with a custom search window, which I think has been added by one of the Facebook apps she installed. The default page is still set to Google and that comes up with a normal browser load, but individual tabs always start with the odd search entry.

This suggests that the entry has been added there by a passive process, possibly from a separate application or web-script (i.e. such as from clicking a dubious advert or web-page). Removing it from add/remove programmes probably won't completely resolve the problem either. You may or may not find this useful.

http://www.exterminate-it.com/malpedia/remove-autosearch

I also found this, which is more specific about the problem.

http://forums.whatthetech.com/index.php?showtopic=113819#entry674052

It's not strictly a virus and won't look like Malware, but it does try to get in the way of your normal internet activity.
 
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