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NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Hammerspace
Environment:
Win7Pro64, all updates applied. Lenovo ThinkPad T520i. Mozilla, Chrome, and Torch - all updated. AVG Internet Security 2013, all updates applied.
QUESTION:
I generally disable/disallow the installation of any "sidecar" software, toolbars, and that sort of crap if I need to install something. I didn't even install the toolbar for AVG - just the basic software.
For some odd reason, whenever I open up a new tab in any browser, I don't get a "blank tab" anymore - it defaults to some "snapdo" search page. I've no idea where this is coming from, AVG hasn't found anything, and I HAVE gone through and fixed the homepage setting in all browsers (since it took over from there as well.) I do not even recall seeing any "snapdo" on anything that I may have installed, I'm sure I wouldn't have done it, and I don't use the page anyhow - I tend to immediately override loading it.
I was about to give up and see if Regedit could let me find and nuke any Registry key entries, but I don't see Regedit in the Start menu anywhere (I do have Administrator privileges on this machine (and every other machine here, I fix bloody everything,) and no-one else has been using it - I have a "guest" account with minimal privileges that I would switch to to allow anyone else to use it anyhow.
Therefore:
- What is "snapdo," any idea idea where it would have come from?
- How can I get rid of it?
- Where is Regedit under Win7 anyhow? (I just hate how Micro$oft had to go and rearrange everything with every new release. Don't even get me started on Win8 and all that garbage...
Damn people and their rubbish. I class this as a similar irritant as "Posted from my Phone" or "Posted using Tapatalk" or whatever - it's probably forced advertisement for something-or-other, and I don't want or need it!
Win7Pro64, all updates applied. Lenovo ThinkPad T520i. Mozilla, Chrome, and Torch - all updated. AVG Internet Security 2013, all updates applied.
QUESTION:
I generally disable/disallow the installation of any "sidecar" software, toolbars, and that sort of crap if I need to install something. I didn't even install the toolbar for AVG - just the basic software.
For some odd reason, whenever I open up a new tab in any browser, I don't get a "blank tab" anymore - it defaults to some "snapdo" search page. I've no idea where this is coming from, AVG hasn't found anything, and I HAVE gone through and fixed the homepage setting in all browsers (since it took over from there as well.) I do not even recall seeing any "snapdo" on anything that I may have installed, I'm sure I wouldn't have done it, and I don't use the page anyhow - I tend to immediately override loading it.
I was about to give up and see if Regedit could let me find and nuke any Registry key entries, but I don't see Regedit in the Start menu anywhere (I do have Administrator privileges on this machine (and every other machine here, I fix bloody everything,) and no-one else has been using it - I have a "guest" account with minimal privileges that I would switch to to allow anyone else to use it anyhow.
Therefore:
- What is "snapdo," any idea idea where it would have come from?
- How can I get rid of it?
- Where is Regedit under Win7 anyhow? (I just hate how Micro$oft had to go and rearrange everything with every new release. Don't even get me started on Win8 and all that garbage...
Damn people and their rubbish. I class this as a similar irritant as "Posted from my Phone" or "Posted using Tapatalk" or whatever - it's probably forced advertisement for something-or-other, and I don't want or need it!