Jean, A Google post says that Mawarebytes Anti-Malware  will remove Babyon. Bob http://www.malwarebytes.org/products/malwarebytes_free ---------------------------------------- > Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:00:21 +0100 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [COMPUTERS] Question about Babylon > > Hi Listers. > > An icon appeared on my desktop last night called Babylon. It seems to > have taken over all my browsers apart from Internet Explorer which > gave me a choice of keeping Bing or switching to Babylon. It has wiped > out my profile in Google Chrome and a message came up to check if it > exists. > > I don't like the changes but there does not seem anyway to get rid of > it. When I tried to remove it in Add/Remove programs it does not show > up. This is on my Windows XP computer. A few minutes later On my > Windows 7 computer there was an alarm that sounded saying there was an > intruder trying to get in. I can only assume that it was Babylon > trying to install itself there. Windows defender stopped that one > thank goodness. > > Can anyone offer advice on how to get rid of this nuisance that I did > not ask for nor want please? It would be greatly appreciated. > > Very many thanks in advance. > > Jean McCarthy nee Moore > > -- > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jeanmccarthy36/ > > [email protected] > > > > :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: > > Please refrain from posting commercial URLs and from discussing prices on the list. > > Remember to SNIP when replying. > > :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I did not find anything else useful to help me get rid of Babylon. In the end I searched for all instances of Babylon on my computer and deleted them, then emptied the recycle bin. I then downloaded the latest versions of all my browsers and rebooted my computer. I then reset the homepage of each browser to the default setting. So far so good and everything seems to be back to normal. Thank goodness it was driving me crazy! Thanks again for your advice. Jean. On 22 October 2011 17:08, Robert Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Jean, > > A Google post says that Mawarebytes Anti-Malware  will remove Babyon. > > Bob > > > http://www.malwarebytes.org/products/malwarebytes_free > > ---------------------------------------- >> Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:00:21 +0100 >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [COMPUTERS] Question about Babylon >> >> Hi Listers. >> >> An icon appeared on my desktop last night called Babylon. It seems to >> have taken over all my browsers apart from Internet Explorer which >> gave me a choice of keeping Bing or switching to Babylon. It has wiped >> out my profile in Google Chrome and a message came up to check if it >> exists. >> >> I don't like the changes but there does not seem anyway to get rid of >> it. When I tried to remove it in Add/Remove programs it does not show >> up. This is on my Windows XP computer. A few minutes later On my >> Windows 7 computer there was an alarm that sounded saying there was an >> intruder trying to get in. I can only assume that it was Babylon >> trying to install itself there. Windows defender stopped that one >> thank goodness. >> >> Can anyone offer advice on how to get rid of this nuisance that I did >> not ask for nor want please? It would be greatly appreciated. >> >> Very many thanks in advance. >> >> Jean McCarthy nee Moore >> >> -- >> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jeanmccarthy36/ >> >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: >> >> Please refrain from posting commercial URLs and from discussing prices on the list. >> >> Remember to SNIP when replying. >> >> :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jeanmccarthy36/ [email protected]