[ExI] phony google

[BillK]

On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 5:19 PM, spike  wrote:
> I found a free app that detects Delta Search, which it did.  But to actually
> delete and uninstall, they wanted 30 bucks.  So I went to a second product,
> but it was the same story.  Then I found a free widget which claimed to find
> and uninstall Delta free, deleted and uninstalled everything associated with
> Delta Search, hooray!
>

Delta Search is pretty tricky malware. It installs other programs as well.
Your widget will have to be good to get rid of everything.
I would recommend you do at least one anti-malware scan. (More is better).

Download Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Free here:
<http://www.malwarebytes.org/products/malwarebytes_free/>

The scan could take 30 minutes or so, depending on your computer.


>
> If little tiny innocent microscopic spike can think of this, the internet
> hipsters would be all over it 20 yrs ago.  So how do I know if I have a
> counterfeit Google now?  How would I know if I caught one later?  How do I
> know that the free widget which uninstalled Delta didn’t just change the
> names of the system files and disguise it as Google?  Is there a vocabulary
> already in place to describe this?
>
>

There are other search engines! You can compare results.
Some search engines include Google searches in their results, but
without giving google your personally identifiable data.

Try
https://www.startpage.com/
https://www.ixquick.com/
https://duckduckgo.com/

BillK