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unwanted searchqu home page

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This thread's last reply is from April 15, 2011, 5:41 PM UTC. Software, malware, and removal-tool advice below may be out of date — treat specific steps and download links with caution.

Hello,

My homepage has decided to redirect itself to searchqu - I've had a look on a lot of forums and found that this is a common problem, however I didn't at any point download Bandoo, which is often cited as the source of the searchqu malware. I did have Vuze on this computer, which may be the source, though I haven't used it for months, and the problem only appeared a few days ago. However I have uninstalled it since I read your policy on file sharing programs; I don't think I have any other P2P programs on here so am ready to start work on getting rid of searchqu.

The machine is running perfectly well aside from the homepage being diverted. I tried to remove the malware by using "system restore" to no avail. I have also searched my system for the searchqu file but found it nowhere.

Help will be very much appreciated...
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