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#1 2012-07-06 06:17:13
I had to switch to Chrome...
Because some garbage called 'Babylon' took over firefox.
I'm not an expert - I don't know much about this. It mysteriously appeared one day and became my default browser. I switched back to firefox and removed babylon, thinking that it was the end. But surely enough, it came back. Now I can't seem to fully remove it. I did an anti-malware scan with MalwareBytes and first it found two things, one of which was adware - I removed both. STILL I saw babylon, and I did another scan and saw nothing.
Perhaps that means the bad stuff is gone but babylon keeps coming back so I am suspicious. My dad is very good with this stuff (as he does this for his job) but I'm on vacation and he is at home (so he cannot fix my problem.)
It only seems to affect firefox so I downloaded chrome and am using that until the end of my vacation.
Anyone else had this problem too?
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#4 2012-07-06 07:17:55
- nathanprocks
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Re: I had to switch to Chrome...
Chrome is way better anyways. 
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#5 2012-07-06 07:32:23
Re: I had to switch to Chrome...
wiimaster wrote:
jontmy00 wrote:
Did you change any settings in FireFox?
Before this incident, or after, in attempt to fix it?
I mean before.
@nathanprocks: +1.
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#7 2012-07-06 08:10:55
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Re: I had to switch to Chrome...
You never said what the PROBLEM was. Unless somebody else had that problem, we don't know what you want to fix. Pictures or descriptions please?
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#8 2012-07-06 08:14:47
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Re: I had to switch to Chrome...
Babylon, yes. It installs a toolbar, changes your search engine as well as the home page. I hate it. It's hard to get rid off. Chrome is better anyway, much faster, as well as being a web it browser.
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#9 2012-07-06 08:28:16
Re: I had to switch to Chrome...
Yeah, that got on my friend's computer, really annoying. Have you tried googling it?
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#10 2012-07-06 08:47:04
Re: I had to switch to Chrome...
jontmy00 wrote:
wiimaster wrote:
jontmy00 wrote:
Did you change any settings in FireFox?
Before this incident, or after, in attempt to fix it?
I mean before.
No, not that I remember.
XenoK wrote:
Never had this happen before. I've used chromium (for you itd be chrome) and found that firefox is a lot faster. Try uninstalling firefox, then reinstall it.
I did that - I video I found about it told me to. Its still there 
16Skittles wrote:
You never said what the PROBLEM was. Unless somebody else had that problem, we don't know what you want to fix. Pictures or descriptions please?
The problem is Babylon. It snuck its way onto my computer and made itself my default browser, and is refusing to be removed. I don't know what else it is doing, sadly.
If you search it up, many other people have this problem.
jji7skyline wrote:
Babylon, yes. It installs a toolbar, changes your search engine as well as the home page. I hate it. It's hard to get rid off. Chrome is better anyway, much faster, as well as being a web it browser.
Ok, I'm probably going to be using chrome from now on. Did you get Babylon? If so, how did you defeat it?
majormax wrote:
Yeah, that got on my friend's computer, really annoying. Have you tried googling it?
I googled it, I looked at two videos and some webpages about it, and tried them all. I can't seem to get rid of it.
This thing is very pesky, I'm probably going to have to give up until my dad can fiddle with it.
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#11 2012-07-06 09:33:07
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Re: I had to switch to Chrome...
I had this problem in chrome, but It was easier to remove.
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#12 2012-07-06 15:30:05
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Re: I had to switch to Chrome...
This happened in Internet Explorer a while back, but luckily there was Internet Explorer 9 (I was using 8). I upgraded and it went away.
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#13 2012-07-06 17:53:03
Re: I had to switch to Chrome...
Did you download any sort of program before that point? Once that happened to me, and I think it was bundled in with another program (at this point I forget which one). It was OK though because I don't use Firefox.
Edit: actually, it was jzip 
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#15 2012-07-06 18:55:24
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Re: I had to switch to Chrome...
Freezing wrote:
chromes better anyway
Thanks very much for helping with the problem.
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#16 2012-07-06 19:01:31
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Re: I had to switch to Chrome...
Did you try reinstalling Firefox? It's always sad to lose a user.
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#17 2012-07-06 19:11:01
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Re: I had to switch to Chrome...
Chrome's better. Anyways, reinstall, or contact Apple.
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#18 2012-07-06 19:18:31
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Re: I had to switch to Chrome...
These may help:
http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/746530
http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/812492
http://www.techimo.com/forum/networking … lware.html
If you need more help, just Google "babylon browser". Seems that lots of people are having this problem.
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#19 2012-07-06 19:32:29
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Re: I had to switch to Chrome...
Uninstall the extension, then go to ad remove programs on control panel and uninstall anything that's related with Babylon, then change back your search engine to Google and your homepage to scratch.
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#20 2012-07-06 19:45:00
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Re: I had to switch to Chrome...
it is adware, ur comp might not remove it fully on uninstal. wat u have to do is go to program file and find the folder with the adware in it. u cant delete becase it gives an error msg but u can change the file's extention to png maybe, and that stops it fom working
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#22 2012-07-06 22:57:57
Re: I had to switch to Chrome...
jji7skyline wrote:
Uninstall the extension, then go to ad remove programs on control panel and uninstall anything that's related with Babylon, then change back your search engine to Google and your homepage to scratch.
Another thing is that you should go do the things this says (go to about:config and look up babylon, then reset the stuff that shows up).
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