Easto said:
Okay.....
I searched on goole "remove Internet Optimizer"
It says to look in the Control Panel etc, but I don't have any of the programs in there.
Then it gives instructions on how to manually remove IO. I tried to do that, but it seems that my PC doesn't have the files that I am supposed to remove, but I am still getting this IO hijacking webpages.
Ad-Aware and Spy Bot have not helped either.
did you try this?
For the Crmrest installer variant, open the Downloaded Program Files folder (inside the Windows folder) and remove the 'Media Manager' entry.
For other variants, open the Windows folder. You should be able to see a file 'ioptiXXX.dll' (Iopti variant), 'nemXXX.dll' (Nem variant) or 'wsemXXX.dll' (Wsem variant). The XXX differs for different versions; common versions are 'iopti130.dll', 'nem207.dll' and 'wsem210.dll'.
Open the registry (click 'Start', choose 'Run' and enter 'regedit') and find the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run. Delete the entries 'DyFuCA' and 'DyFuCA Active Alerts'.
Now open a DOS command prompt window (from Start->Programs->Accessories), and enter the following commands (for the Iopti variant):
cd "%WinDir%\System"
regsvr32 /u ..\iopti130.dll
Or, for the Nem variant:
cd "%WinDir%\System"
regsvr32 /u ..\nem207.dll
Or, for the Wsem variant:
cd "%WinDir%\System"
regsvr32 /u ..\wsem210.dll
Restart the computer and you should be able to delete the DLL from the Windows folder, and the 'DyFuCA', 'Internet Optimizer' or 'STWSI' folder you may have inside Program Files. You can also delete the subkey 'FCI' in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software and HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software to clean up if you like.
