Internet Explorer URL Bar Search Problem

[DaCypher]

I use the custom search prefixes feature in TweakUI to create my own search shortcuts. For example, if I type "g something to search for" it will do a google search with the string following g. However, all of a sudden today whenever I type anything into the address bar of internet explorer (except for URLs) it goes to http://www.commonname.com/en/PowerSearch/P...PowerSearch.asp and searches for whatever I typed in. This also happens if I try to search for something using IE's built in search feature (just type in a string into the address bar). I've tried resetting the customized search settings in IE but it has no effect. Has anyone ever heard of this? I have no idea how the commonname.com thing came in effect, I'm assuming it somehow smuggled itself onto my computer with some software I installed. I have tried searching the registry for commonname.com and have tried searching for spyware/adware and cleaning everything up, but nothing seems to have any effect. Please help me out, I really miss my little search prefixes. Thanks in advance...

[Justin03248]

evil spyware/adware... it changed a reg setting. That happened to my sisters computer once, but I couldn't ever find the reg setting that MS uses for autosearches. Good luck finding the reg entry.

[Zip]

first, uninstall kazaa and download kazaa lite, then you should be able to uninstall from add/remove programs in the control panel

[DaCypher]

I don't have Kazaa or Kazaa lite. What exactly should I be able to uninstall?

[DaCypher]

Ok, after some research I found this page: http://217.115.153.73/parasite/CommonName.html. It explains how this stupid spyware software was on my system and how to get rid of it. Quite a process to go through manually. Anyways, hopefully this will help someone if they run into the same problem that I had.

[fdiaz2day]

Thanks for that site DaCypher, I had that same problem...now, for me to get to work...