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You're very welcome. Well deserved. Actually, this whole experience was a blessing. You bolstered my faith in people. And I am much more knowledgeable about computer security, which I plan to pass on to friends who are less enlightened. Running Chrome now on both computers with WOT and Adblock so far. Software is all up to date and installed Malewarebytes Pro on both machines. In a related but off topic question. What do you do regarding passwords. I have been using my brain and a word document stored in TrueCrypt containers, but in doing the research this event started, I came across Keepass and Lastpass. Do you have any thoughts in this area? TIA
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BTW, I have been copying and pasting select parts of our dialog to save for reference and I noticed this on entry # 27. I had forgotten that when I was reporting that my new install of Chrome had mysearchdial as the default. With your experience, why do you think that would have shown up in the new install. Do you think there is still an issue somwhere? The two items are as follows (seems I can't get to log until I do something with these...should I remove or ignore?): PUP. Optional. MySeardchDial.A Registry Key HKCU\Software\Google\Chrome\Extensions...... PUP. Optional. MySeardchDial.A Registry Key HKLM\Software\Google\Chrome\Extensions......
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I know. You had recommended Firefox and I read a bit on both yesterday. Chose to try Chrome after what I read. We'll see. Most of the same extensions your recommended are also available on Chrome. Thank you again for those tips. Any remaining concerns about having not been able to run Combo Fix? We you able to get the same level of comfort going another route? I haven't use PayPal in over 5 years, so I am coming up to speed on that again, so I can send a donation your way for all of the hand holding and excellent advice.
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Hey Kevin. Thank you for showing me how to take ownership. It worked! I was able to delete the two google folders. One in Program files and the other in program data. Removed all Google programs from add/remove. I then downloaded Chrome from the google website, but once it opened there was mysearchdial as the default to be used when searching from omnibox.