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Iistart123 - A REAL PAIN - HOW TO DEFEAT IT?

Feb 25, 2015 3:52AM PST

istart123 mysteriously took over the home page of all 3 of my web browsers. You can't close it. It takes over your start page. You can't get rid of it. If you close it's tab, it simply pops another tab back up. It is not a registered program, and there is no program that you can uninstall. I attempted to find istart123 in the Windows 7 registry, but though the name comes up, I was unable to find associated files to delete. Has anyone had this problem?

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Sounds too rare.
Feb 25, 2015 3:58AM PST
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Something about it here.
Feb 25, 2015 4:13AM PST
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Good find.
Feb 26, 2015 12:02AM PST

It appears there was a typo in the OP's post. Good find.