home page got changed to Babylon search

[Tim923]

The IE home page got changed somehow to the annoying Babylon search from
some download. How do I change the home page back to google?
(I can't look it up here because I only have text access now.)

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

The IE home page got changed somehow to the annoying Babylon search from
some download. How do I change the home page back to google?
(I can't look it up here because I only have text access now.)

Well, it's not hard.

Settings (the gear icon), Internet Options, General Tab, first field.

If you had a GUI, it probably would have take you the same 5 seconds it
took me

Maybe it was actually 20 seconds

 

[Tim923]

Well, it's not hard.

thanks. I'm trying to help my mom over the phone long distance.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

in message

thanks. I'm trying to help my mom over the phone long distance.

Ah. A whole 'nother ball game

So it's not so easy...

Good luck. Been there, and it can be made to work.

 

[Elmo]

in message

thanks. I'm trying to help my mom over the phone long distance.

If you both have cable internet, or DSL, email her a link to
teamviewerQS.exe She can email you the ID and password after starting
it, and you can use the full version of teamviewer to make the changes.

Go to teamviewer.com, click the Download link in the upper right, and
find the "Teamviewer Quick Support" link.

 

[Tim923]

Oh my. She said google is listed as the default, but the annoying babylon
crap still is there. Does anyone know how to get rid of babylon for good?

 

[Ken1943]

Oh my. She said google is listed as the default, but the annoying babylon
crap still is there. Does anyone know how to get rid of babylon for good?

It is malware. She could try Superantispyware and Malwarebytes ( both
free). If you Google Babylon, there is much info on it, but the thing
seems to be hard to remove.


KenW

 

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

If you both have cable internet, or DSL, email her a link to
teamviewerQS.exe She can email you the ID and password after starting
it, and you can use the full version of teamviewer to make the changes.

Go to teamviewer.com, click the Download link in the upper right, and
find the "Teamviewer Quick Support" link.

http://www.teamviewer.com/download/TeamViewerQS_en.exe

I bookmarked that some months ago, and they don't seem to have moved it
- I just tried that link and Firefox still offered to download
something.

 

[Tim923]

It is malware. She could try Superantispyware and Malwarebytes ( both
free). If you Google Babylon, there is much info on it, but the thing
seems to be hard to remove.

This isn't anything I can help her long distance. I'll have to wait until I
visit. I did a google search "remove babylon" and there are many different
methods described.

The easiest I've seen is to run regedit from the start and delete everything
that has "baby" or "babylon" in it, but I don't know how safe that is. Tim

 

[Ken1943]

This isn't anything I can help her long distance. I'll have to wait until I
visit. I did a google search "remove babylon" and there are many different
methods described.

The easiest I've seen is to run regedit from the start and delete everything
that has "baby" or "babylon" in it, but I don't know how safe that is. Tim

I saw the same info. SAS and MBM would be a good start. They may have it
in there definitions.


KenW

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

This isn't anything I can help her long distance. I'll have to wait until I
visit. I did a google search "remove babylon" and there are many different
methods described.

The easiest I've seen is to run regedit from the start and delete everything
that has "baby" or "babylon" in it, but I don't know how safe that is. Tim

Especially over the phone...

OTOH, I just searched my registry and found nothing much with "baby" -

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\SideBySide\Winners\amd64_microsoft-windows-o..disc-style-babygirl...

and another similar one with babyboy, and that's it.

I deleted parts of the keyname above, since it's very long...

Anyway, I have zero idea what it means, but probably deleting it would
bring Western Civilization to an end.

 

[Tim923]

and another similar one with babyboy, and that's it.

I deleted parts of the keyname above, since it's very long...

Anyway, I have zero idea what it means, but probably deleting it would
bring Western Civilization to an end.

It might just have been "starts with baby." Tim

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

It might just have been "starts with baby." Tim

Could you explain that? I don't know what you mean - even whether it's a
joke or serious...

Call it a senior moment at this end

 

[Tim923]

Could you explain that? I don't know what you mean - even whether it's a
joke or serious...

Call it a senior moment at this end

Not a joke. I read something like this online. The advice was to delete
the Babylon registry entries, some of them starting with just "baby." I'm
not comfortable with deleting files like this. I don't know if I'll try.
Tim

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Not a joke. I read something like this online. The advice was to delete
the Babylon registry entries, some of them starting with just "baby." I'm
not comfortable with deleting files like this. I don't know if I'll try.
Tim

Thanks, all is clear now.

My first reply was meant to illustrate that in at least one uninfected
computer, there's very little in the registry with "baby" in its name. I
searched in the entire registry (ignoring case) for keys, values, and
data containing "baby" anywhere in a string.

I meant for that information to be helpful for someone wondering how
safe it might be to delete entries containing the string "baby". Namely,
it seems to be pretty low-risk.