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re: Can not delete portalsearching.com Sunday, November 23, 2003 at 6:47 pm Posted by triplate (20834 messages posted) Delete it in Safe Mode..if that doesnt work...we,ll do the dancing registry routine. On Sunday, November 23, 2003 at 6:32 pm, Jordan wrote: >After doing some surfing, I descovered I had picked up a program (I think) that I >did not download. It links me to portalsearching.com, has added a toolbar, and keeps >adding shortcuts on the desktop and favorites to my list. The thing that gets me >is I can not delete or remove it. It has lodged itself under WINNT\Downloaded Program >Files. It is called BHO.clsInetSpeak and the code base is portalsearching.com/BHO.CAB. > When I try to remove it, I get a message saying it is in use and can not be removed, >to close programs using it, and reboot Windows. But when I try to get in there again >to remove it, I get the same message. Can someone help me in getting rid of this >thing? [Reply or follow-up to this message] From the post above yours Sunday, November 23, 2003 at 6:52 pm Posted by Ricer46 (23818 messages posted) "how I would go about keeping ... my Favourites folder clear of unwanted sites." NEVER click OK on a dialog box without reading it and knowing what you are accepting. Some dialog boxes have no way to close them except to hit a single button. Those are the really bad ones. If you have to, shut down IE with the Task Manager to close the dialog box. You clicked on the button to get rid of one of those dialog boxes initiating the download and install that you don't think you did. On Sunday, November 23, 2003 at 6:32 pm, Jordan wrote: >After doing some surfing, I descovered I had picked up a program (I think) that I >did not download. It links me to portalsearching.com, has added a toolbar, and keeps >adding shortcuts on the desktop and favorites to my list. The thing that gets me >is I can not delete or remove it. It has lodged itself under WINNT\Downloaded Program >Files. It is called BHO.clsInetSpeak and the code base is portalsearching.com/BHO.CAB. > When I try to remove it, I get a message saying it is in use and can not be removed, >to close programs using it, and reboot Windows. But when I try to get in there again >to remove it, I get the same message. Can someone help me in getting rid of this >thing? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can not delete portalsearching.com Sunday, November 23, 2003 at 7:30 pm Posted by Helen (1640 messages posted) SpyBot Search & Destroy can nuke this one... [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can not delete portalsearching.com Saturday, November 29, 2003 at 6:04 am Posted by willie (1 messages posted) Go to the Windows Folder in "Windows" Explorer. Then find the file "Regedit"-open it up. Then under "edit" click on "find" type in "Portal". This will go to all strings or names involving "portal". When you find "Portal Searching" delete it by using your right click of the mouse button and "delete". Continue finding by pressing "F3" this will find the next instance of "Portal Seaching" Delete all instances of "portal searching" and keep doing same until the registry has finished searching and all instances of "Portal Searching" are gone. Hope this will help-it did for me. Willie. On Sunday, November 23, 2003 at 6:47 pm, triplate wrote: >Delete it in Safe Mode..if that doesnt work...we,ll do the dancing registry routine. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can not delete portalsearching.com Monday, December 1, 2003 at 6:45 pm Posted by BILL (1 messages posted) I also got portalsearching.com. I don't know how or when it was down loaded, but I couldn't delete it. I tried starting in safe mode and deleting it, that didn't work. I used the method suggested by Willie, but I also had to delete all instances of BHO. Bill > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can not delete portalsearching.com Saturday, December 13, 2003 at 7:52 pm Posted by J Nerf (1 messages posted) I found a helpful code to rid my pc of portal bug. I tried it and in 3-4 seconds the nasty bugger was gone. I went into my Windows Explorer folder under Downloaded Programs and the status said "Damaged." Whereas before I could not delete the program, I erased the *#@!!! with no problem. I could then also delete all of the annoying icons that had appeared on my desktop. Here is the address: http://www.portalsearching.com/uninstall.exe On Sunday, November 23, 2003 at 6:32 pm, Jordan wrote: >After doing some surfing, I descovered I had picked up a program (I think) that I >did not download. It links me to portalsearching.com, has added a toolbar, and keeps >adding shortcuts on the desktop and favorites to my list. The thing that gets me >is I can not delete or remove it. It has lodged itself under WINNT\Downloaded Program >Files. It is called BHO.clsInetSpeak and the code base is portalsearching.com/BHO.CAB. > When I try to remove it, I get a message saying it is in use and can not be removed, >to close programs using it, and reboot Windows. But when I try to get in there again >to remove it, I get the same message. Can someone help me in getting rid of this >thing? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can not delete portalsearching.com Tuesday, December 16, 2003 at 4:43 am Posted by Anne (1 messages posted) Hi,J Nerf, Thank you very much, I am so so so happy without"portalsearching"! The tool you introduced it is perfect! I really wanted to say thank you!!!!! On Saturday, December 13, 2003 at 7:52 pm, J Nerf wrote: >I found a helpful code to rid my pc of portal bug. I tried it and in 3-4 seconds >the nasty bugger was gone. I went into my Windows Explorer folder under Downloaded >Programs and the status said "Damaged." Whereas before I could not delete the program, >I erased the *#@!!! with no problem. I could then also delete all of the annoying >icons that had appeared on my desktop. Here is the address: http://www.portalsearching.com/uninstall.exe > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can not delete portalsearching.com Friday, December 19, 2003 at 1:39 pm Posted by Rinaldo Wouterson (1 messages posted) Dear people who will read this, It is really simple to delete this. You do it by going to www.portalsearching.com and click on the banner called: "TOOLBAR" Then you have your choise to install and uninstall. Greetings, Rinaldo Wouterson On Monday, December 1, 2003 at 6:45 pm, BILL wrote: >I also got portalsearching.com. I don't know how or when it was down loaded, but >I couldn't delete it. >I tried starting in safe mode and deleting it, that didn't work. I used the method >suggested by Willie, but I also had to delete all instances of BHO. Bill > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can not delete portalsearching.com Friday, December 19, 2003 at 10:18 pm Posted by frank (1 messages posted) It works...thanks. On Saturday, November 29, 2003 at 6:04 am, willie wrote: >Go to the Windows Folder in "Windows" Explorer. Then find the file "Regedit"-open >it up. Then under "edit" click on "find" type in "Portal". This will go to all strings >or names involving "portal". When you find "Portal Searching" delete it by using >your right click of the mouse button and "delete". Continue finding by pressing "F3" >this will find the next instance of "Portal Seaching" Delete all instances of "portal >searching" and keep doing same until the registry has finished searching and all >instances of "Portal Searching" are gone. Hope this will help-it did for me. >Willie. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can not delete portalsearching.com Monday, December 22, 2003 at 5:54 am Posted by Viper (1 messages posted) Guys Im having the EXACT same problem, and I tried ALL your solutions, but I cant get rid of it! I deleted all portal-related files in my REGEDIT I used Uninstall.Exe but it keeps saying a browser is open if its not, and I restarted too I cant remove it from Downloaded Program Files because its used. Someone PLEASE help me. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can not delete portalsearching.com Thursday, December 25, 2003 at 1:31 pm Posted by Joe (1 messages posted) I too had picked up the same annoyance. I was successfull at removing it by logging into safe mode as administrator and uninistalling the BHO.clsInetSpeak from the windows\downloaded folder. Next, I opened up regedit did a search on portal and deleted all occurances of it with the exception of mmportal. Rebooted my computer and the annoyance was gone. Hope this works for you. On Sunday, November 23, 2003 at 6:32 pm, Jordan wrote: >After doing some surfing, I descovered I had picked up a program (I think) that I >did not download. It links me to portalsearching.com, has added a toolbar, and keeps >adding shortcuts on the desktop and favorites to my list. The thing that gets me >is I can not delete or remove it. It has lodged itself under WINNT\Downloaded Program >Files. It is called BHO.clsInetSpeak and the code base is portalsearching.com/BHO.CAB. > When I try to remove it, I get a message saying it is in use and can not be removed, >to close programs using it, and reboot Windows. But when I try to get in there again >to remove it, I get the same message. Can someone help me in getting rid of this >thing? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can not delete portalsearching.com Thursday, January 1, 2004 at 10:28 am Posted by Duke (1 messages posted) All efforts above tried. regedit and system search uninstall from portal search AdAware - latestest ver Spybot - latest ver None get rid of it. When I reboot my home page is set to \\t:\ or something like it and my default search pages are all set to www.portalsearching.com. Any suggestions? I would love to see someone sue these people/companines for millions of dollars in lost time and wages caused in an attempt to reset and remove their program!!!! On Thursday, December 25, 2003 at 1:31 pm, Joe wrote: >I too had picked up the same annoyance. I was successfull at removing it by logging >into safe mode as administrator and uninistalling the BHO.clsInetSpeak from the windows\downloaded >folder. Next, I opened up regedit did a search on portal and deleted all occurances >of it with the exception of mmportal. Rebooted my computer and the annoyance was >gone. Hope this works for you. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can not delete portalsearching.com Monday, January 5, 2004 at 11:29 am Posted by technical support (1 messages posted) go to msconfig->services tab->hide all microsoft services->disable the remaining services this is a sure fix [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum