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Jeffrey Snover is lead architect for the Windows Server Division at Microsoft. He has been in the IT industry for over 30 years and with Microsoft since 1999, and he invented Windows PowerShell. Windows IT Pro technical directors Sean Deuby and Michael Otey sat down with Snover at the Windows Connections conference in early November to discuss some of the latest enhancements to Windows Server.
Sean Deuby: What does "lead architect for Windows Server" mean? What does that role look like on a day-to-day basis?
Jeffrey Snover: It's a couple of things. First, we have people who are very specific to a feature -- like the architect for that feature. My role is to look across the scenarios to make sure they're all fitting together. And then in general, the job of an architect is to be what I call the "guardian of the long-term," which is to say, "Hey, that's great, but how is that going to fit in the next release and the release after that?" So that's what I do for Windows Server -- figure out not just how to deliver a great product in this release, but also use this release to set up the next one and the one after that.
Michael Otey: Sean and I attended the Windows Server 8 Reviewer's Workshop in September, and we were blown away by all the new features that are coming up in Server 8. I know there are way too many to talk about, but what are some of the highlights for you of what we're going to see?
Snover: As a technologist, I look at the technology innovations. Although we've had great technology innovations in the past, I think this is by far the largest, most transformative release we've ever had. We have major innovations in storage. Honestly, in the past, we've had some weakness in our storage stack and people had to buy very expensive, very high-end storage arrays to do some of the things they wanted to do. Now if you have those things you're going to get more value out of them because we have a close partnership with those storage vendors. A lot of the things you think you could only get from the storage arrays, you're going to get with in-box storage. If you sit down and look at the details, in every single layer of the storage stack there's transformation -- the way we deal with disks, the way we deal with the file system, the way we cluster things together.
Otey: Some of the things that really jumped out at me from the storage side were the built-in data deduplication capabilities, which are pretty amazing; the total revamp of the Checkdisk operations, which are much more efficient and online and dynamic; and the ability to take advantage of the storage back-end arrays, where you wouldn't have to funnel the I/O through the servers and instead when you're doing a file-copy operation on that back-end array you can tell it to take advantage of those kinds of things that are built in. Those are big changes, and they're obviously baked into the hardware at a pretty deep level and into the OS.
Snover: Right, and in the whole storage space -- the ability to take a bunch of inexpensive disks and pool them together and do thin provisioning and . . . this delta. In the past, NTFS was designed around SCSI. But it turns out, some of the inexpensive SATA drives didn't correctly implement a number of the commands. They looked good on a benchmark, but not so good when there's a power outage and now we don't have [any data]. Now we detect that and modify our flushing algorithms to ensure consistency and get great reliability, from notebook drives all the way up to very large sets of SATA drives -- so now you can more safely take advantage of commodity components.
Deuby: That raises an interesting point. A lot of companies are still upgrading to Server 2008 R2, even though Windows Server 8 will be out soon. There's a big push toward private cloud, and a lot of people are wondering how to manage the private cloud. Storage is one of the reasons you should migrate to Server 8 rather than stick with Server 2008 R2 as you're building your private cloud and your next-generation infrastructure.
Otey: Another thing we were really impressed with is some of the changes in the new hypervisor and virtualization of Server 8. Can you tell us about those?
Snover: First is scale, scale, scale. That's not just limited to virtualization. There's been a strong push from the very beginning on scale -- finding out, throughout the stack, where the bottlenecks are and fixing them. So now we go up to 640 CPUs. It's phenomenal. When you have a virtualized machine, you can now have 160 processors and 2TB of RAM, and then the VMs themselves, 32-processor VMs and 512GB of RAM.
Deuby: This is version 3 of the hypervisor; can you tell us about v3?
Snover: In the vast majority of my 31 years in the industry, I worked for companies that competed against Microsoft. Microsoft would enter a market and would quickly point out the competition's failings and flaws. We'd pat ourselves on the back and feel very confident -- but honestly, we always knew: Sell your stock options before Microsoft's version 3 hits the ground, because by version 3 they've dialed it in and figured it out. They do a great job with version 3. And that's certainly the case with hypervisor and virtualization. It's not just about scale, but also the ability to do replication -- definitely the best replication story out there, achieving what some people call the Holy Grail of replication, where not only can I do replicas based on a cluster, I can do it without a cluster using shared storage, or just having an Ethernet cable.
And you have the ability to do that replication synchronously or asynchronously and the capability for disaster recovery scenarios, where you can say, "Hey, I'm running this here and asynchronously replicating it, perhaps in the cloud to a hoster in case anything goes wrong here." Machines go down -- but sometimes entire sites go down, so the ability to inexpensively back up to the cloud is a wonderful thing.
Deuby: I think you bring up a key point, which is the inexpensive part of it. So, small-to-midsized businesses (SMBs) don't have to pay an arm and a leg.
Otey: That's true. VMware has been criticized for being an expensive solution, and it seems like it becomes more expensive all the time. If Hyper-V is built in to Server 8, it's a good value proposition for SMBs.
Snover: This is Microsoft's history and our distinct competence: the ability to take very high-end, very expensive computing and make it available to the masses. You see that with virtualization: very high-end and increasingly expensive. I think [VMware] became aware that v3 is coming out, so it's jacking up prices to get the money while it can. You see that with virtualization, you see it with storage, you see it with management.
Another example is remote direct memory access [RDMA]. It lets me say I've got a specialized NIC that allows me to have an alternate network path to TCP. It's amazingly fast, amazingly low-latency because it's all done in the hardware. In the past, that was really done by the high-performance computing world. So, x thousand guys pay through the nose to get these great NICs, get fantastic performance, but now what we're saying is that everybody should be delivering NICs like that because in addition to those scenarios, which continue to exist, we now have a kernel-mode API that can access that and we take advantage of that kernel-mode API with SMB. So now SMB Direct gives the ability to use this RDMA and go as fast as the wind.
Microsoft's engineers changed the protocol so we can use multiple TCP connections on the same SMB session. This means you can have as many NICs as you want, connected between source and destination. And the session is dynamic, so you can remove a NIC and dynamically adjust. You can add a NIC and dynamically adjust. So you have maximum bandwidth and maximum resiliency. This was the most impressive thing, in my opinion -- the fast failover.
In the past, if you clustered your file server, we've raised the bar from high availability to continuous availability. High availability says that if something goes wrong, you can fail over and restart your operation and succeed. Continuous availability says that if a failure occurs, we detect it and resolve it quickly enough that the application never notices it. The operation takes a little bit longer, but it doesn't time out -- which is a lot of hard work.
Otey: One of the other points you touched on is that Server 8 now has built-in NIC teaming, so you don't need specialized vendor NICs to get this kind of availability.
Snover: You can say, "I got that from my vendor in the past." Well, yes and no. You could, but it only worked with that vendor's NIC. You couldn't have heterogeneous NICs. If you ever had a problem and you called Microsoft and said, "I'm using NIC teaming," Microsoft would say, "OK, turn that off -- that might be the issue." But now we support it, so if you call, we'll help you through it. But 32 NICs -- it's just phenomenal. The performance team did such a good job paying attention to the NUMA algorithm's uniformed architecture.
Otey: And that's especially important for performance in VMs.
Snover: Yes, because you can't buy a server today that's not NUMA capable. So according to NUMA, there are things that are cheap and there are things that are expensive to do, and the software has to be aware of that and pay attention to it -- otherwise, you have bad performance. So we've gone through the entire stack looking for these problems. The receive-side scaling, which is to say, I've got a lot of bandwidth coming in and it all goes to the same processor. But you can only go so big -- so you want to fan it out in a way that's aware of the NUMA topology. So you're not just saying, "I fan it out to all these nodes, but they're all in the same NUMA node" -- because then that doesn't fan out. So it's just fantastic scaling.
Otey: So, that can give you linear scaling as you're moving up, as far as processing and cores and that type of thing.
Snover: Did you see those numbers? I had to go back and say, "You need to check your numbers, because I've never heard of this." The scalability of VMs and basically -- it's 8 to 16 -- for a SQL Server workload. You went from an 8-CPU VM to a 16-CPU. I think it's 1.7x scaling, which is just phenomenal. You'd expect 1.4, 1.5, and let me shake your hand. But here's one, I didn't think it was possible, but from 16 to 32, it was 1.9 -- those are crazy numbers.
And it's not just a bolt-on. It requires work at every layer of the stack -- and in the management space, the same thing. We have this new multi-machine Server Manager, but in fact that's just a very thin layer on top of the multi-machine management capabilities within the OS. And it changes at the protocol level, at the PowerShell level. They had to make changes to WMI. At each layer, we had to make changes to be able to support that.
Otey: You touched on something that's going to be super important with Server 8, which is the changing management paradigm. With Server 8, you've taken a different look at how admins should manage Windows Server.
Snover: Absolutely. In the past, you bought a server, and a full server was the default. You got a GUI with it, and there was Server Core and a few specialized people would use Server Core, but there were a lot of issues with it. So with each release we've invested in Server Core, made it better and better, made it able to support more roles, be able to do more manageability.
With Server 8, we're now confident enough to say that Server Core is the preferred management deployment role. Full Windows Server is still there as a compatibility mode, but by and large we want everybody to use Server Core, which is basically to say "headless server."
We still support GUIs -- we're not walking away from GUIs. GUIs are what make the company great. GUIs help customers, but those GUIs should run on the client, and the client consumes as much CPU and as much memory as you want -- it's a client. Obviously you don't want that on a server. And then layer that GUI on top of PowerShell, remote PowerShell, so that it can do multi-machine management, and anything I can do from the GUI, I can then automate.
Otey: So you're saying out of the box, Server Core is going to be the default installation option. But in the past, it was difficult to switch back and forth between Server Core and the full installation. Has that changed?
Snover: Yes. Why are we confident? Basically, three answers: In the past, you chose Server Core or Windows Server -- and if you made a mistake, you started over. Now you can go from Server Core to full Server and back again. And there's something in between, which is to say that with full Server, you can take off the Metro shell in IE. So you can still run GUIs, you can still run Server Manager, but you launch it from the command line. This gives you many of the benefits of Server Core in terms of reduced footprint and reduced serviceability, which means it takes fewer patches. For those people who've been able to make the full transition -- maybe the admin hasn't been able to do that, they're not fully cognizant of PowerShell, or remote management, or an application. Often what we've found in our compatibility tests is that an application will require the GUI for installation but not operation.
I mentioned three things -- that was one. Now it's safer; reduce the risk. The second is manageability. In the past, PowerShell 1.0 shipped with about 130 cmdlets; PowerShell 2.0 shipped with 230 cmdlets; and now we ship with more than 2,300 cmdlets -- so over a factor of 100 more cmdlets.
And now, you can really do full management of the box locally. And if you want to, we now have remote management. In the past, Server Manager couldn't remotely install a role. But now you can. You still use the GUI, but you do it remotely.
The third thing is role availability. There were certain roles that required full Server. Now, more and more of those roles require Server Core. And more importantly, the Denali release of SQL Server [SQL Server 2012] runs on Server Core. So we're feeling pretty confident. This is certainly one of the strong messages we have for everyone in the community, for the ISVs: Love the GUI, just don't run it on the server. Run it on the client, and use PowerShell remoting to the server.
Deuby: Much of what Server 8 is focused on is helping customers build their own private cloud -- and certainly it will be used as a major component of the public cloud as well. Are there any enhancements that have been made to identity to help with the integration because we're looking at building private cloud now and going to something that's hybrid? So the ability to have some portability between the two certainly has something to do with Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS). Has anything been done in that area?
Snover: The big investment there is in the area of roles-based administration. A lot of this isn't just the technology itself. I recently gave a talk in Japan, during which I was trying to explain our investment in continuous availability. I said that basically we're trying to treat three things: more 9s, more 9s per dollar, and easier 9s. Which is to say that you can have all this capability, but it requires regular people to be able to put it together. If you require the world's best admins -- at their best, fully trained -- then you're not going to get that continuous availability. It's the same sort of thing in the area of identity and access control. We have these great capabilities, but sometimes they can get like, "What? Do I understand this?" One of the big things we've done in Server 8 is take the roles-based access and . . . .
Deuby: You're talking about flexible access control.
Snover: Exactly. The ability to say, "Hey, these roles -- I want to automatically identify these files with a set of attributes, high business impact, who owns it, et cetera," and then say, "Hey, you can have read access if you belong to this department." So it's not just identity and group but a richer set of access rights.
Otey: Windows 8 and Server 8 share the same kernel, right?
Snover: Yes, always. And that's why -- same kernel, same GUI, there's one Windows. It takes on different flavors, but there's one Windows. Some people ask, "Why does Windows Server adopt the Metro UI?" I don't understand the question. There's only one Windows. So if Windows has a new UI, Windows has a new UI. And I get why you might not want that on your server, which is why we have Server Core. But it's actually quite a great UI on the client desktop, especially if you have Touch. And they've done some great stuff, it's just that you wouldn't want that consuming resources of your server. One thing I try to point out is that if you have SQL Server, you want every single transistor delivering transactions, because that's its job. When it comes to GUIs, guess what? We want to deliver. I'll consume all available CPU cycles, memory, to deliver the experience because that's all about you.
Otey: A lot of administrators aren't familiar with PowerShell. They've struggled to get into it; they kind of know Windows Shell scripting, maybe they know VB Script, but PowerShell is a bit daunting to them. What kind of advice can you give those admins to help them adopt PowerShell, to help them move toward it and take advantage of it?
Snover: PowerShell is the glue coat. We've glued things together. So we deal with the world as it is. It's a messy world. Ultimately, we're trying to drive to these cmdlets -- these high-level task-oriented abstractions that allow people to think about what they want, type it, and get it. Ultimately, perfection would be do/myjob/ordermeapizza. Obviously we're not going to get there. But if you think about what you want, and you can type it and get it, PowerShell is very easy. The fact that you have to type it isn't a big issue. It's a different input device, but that's not the issue. You think about something; you type it and get it. In the past, you had to do some COM programming or find some WMI classes, or invoke some command-line shell and parse the output -- which can get pretty rough. Some people just love that stuff and are very successful at it. But ultimately a lot of people just want to type it and get it. So this is where the 130, 230, 2,300 cmdlets come in.
Deuby: I know there are features -- for example, in Active Directory (AD) I think it's called a cmdlet window -- where you can see commands going past as you're manipulating users and things like that. You can see what they're doing, kind of giving you feedback to it. As we're moving to various degrees of comfort toward a cloud computing era, one of the key tenets is automation. And if you're going to have any kind of an automation that involves Microsoft products -- for the IT pros out there, you have to learn PowerShell.
Snover: We're working on something -- which will ship before Windows 8, and ship out of box -- that's a script-sharing facility, which allows people to say, "Hey, I'm interested in something around virtualization or Exchange," and it has this search aggregation service that looks at all these various script repositories, aggregates them, and delivers you the results, along with the reputation service. So you can say, "That looks good," and then you can copy the script and make it your own. It's very clever technology. In fact, you can configure it so that you can set up a local script-sharing repository as well. So a big company can say, "Point this thing at my script repository -- I want you using ours, not the community's."
There are some big challenges for the IT pro community. The cloud is wonderful, but it requires changes on the part of IT pros. A bunch of people are going to prosper through this change; others will not. It's all about automation. I like to joke, but it's true: Bill Gates will pay any of us a million dollars a year if we can produce enough value. The trick is, how do you produce enough value? If you just take a GUI and a mouse and go at it, it's hard to differentiate a really smart guy from a not-so-smart guy with a mouse. Can you click faster? Automation is basically a skill amplifier. You're able to be much more productive. That's the test of a technology -- to put it in front of a junior person and in front of an expert person and see how much more of a delta you can be. PowerShell acts like a big amplifier. People who are skilled can produce a lot more -- a ton more productivity.
Sean writes about cloud identity, Microsoft hybrid identity, and whatever else he finds interesting at his blog on Enterprise Identity and on Twitter at @shorinsean.


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After a very successful first season, the finale of Mob Wives airs tonight on VH1.
One word to describe it? Explosive! On the finale episode, we will finally get to witness the widely reported fight between former friends Drita D'avanzo and Karen Gravano. The tension between the two ladies stems from Drita both dating and marrying Lee, whom Karen dated for 7 years and lived with. Drita is also upset with Karen for including her past with Lee in the book she's writing.
Drita and Karen have spent the entire season trying to resolve their issues but things come to ahead tonight when Drita also accuses Karen of sleeping with her ex-boyfriend… while she was still dating him! Wowzers. In the preview below, Karen steps up during the argument which leads Drita to attack her.
Fast forward to today and it appears things are still very bad between the ladies. In a recent interview they both slammed each other with Karen calling Drita a "ho" and Drita calling Karen "two-faced."
However it appears Drita is now willing to mend things. During the cast's season finale party last night in Manhattan, Drita told Silive that she is not happy about her fight with Karen. "I'm not happy the way the show ended," said Drita, "but I have no animosity. I hope we can move forward."
Meanwhile, VH1 announced last month that the Mob Wives will return for a second season! Also, the reunion show was filmed this Thursday and will air July 10th.
The above picture of the cast was taken during last night's season finale party. Photo courtesy of Silive.com.
The finale airs 8/7c on VH1. A preview clip is below –

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Cosmic War
Mark Juergensmeyer
A "cosmic war" is an imagined battle between metaphysical forces—good and evil, right and wrong, order and chaos—that lies behind many cases of religion-related violence in the contemporary world. These transcendent spiritual images have been implanted onto the social and political scene, magnifying ordinary worldly conflict into sacred encounter. There is nothing specific to Christianity, Islam, or any other religion about this idea of cosmic war. Every religious tradition contains images of grand battles that have a divine valence to them. Hence every religion has some kind of mythic or legendary scenario of warfare that can be transported into contemporary conflict and elevate a social or political confrontation into cosmic war.
Non-Martial and Martial Methods to an Ultimate Political Goal of the Tiger Movement in Sri Lanka
Peter Schalk
The Tiger Movement had one ultimate political goal, and two main alternating methods to reach this goal, which was to obtain recognition by world community for the right of self-determination for a group of people living in the northern and eastern provinces of the island of Sri Lanka (in accordance with UN A/Res/42/159, from 1987). These people were Tamil speakers. Self-determination implied the right to secession and to the establishment of a separate and sovereign state called Tamilīlam. Peaceful methods to reach this goal were negotiations, diplomacy, lobbying, conferences, workshops, and above all mediatation; Gandhian methods like hartal "strike" (closing down of shops) and satyāgraha "holding onto truth" (non-violent resistance like sit-downs) have also been used during the period 1956 till today. The Tiger Movement has promoted the non-martial method of fasting to death in protest, but this was not in the orthodox Gandhian way, which did not make a choice between martial and non-martial acts dependent on the circumstance. All non-martial methods could be militant, but not violent.
Depending on the circumstances, alternate methods, closely related to each other and to the goal, were used. The non-martial methods were used transnationally, the martial methods nationally, only on the island of Sri Lanka, with one exception—the assassination in 1991of Rājiv Gāndhi, which was executed in Tamiḻnāṭu.
Vēluppiḷḷai Pirapākaraṉ was conscious of several methods to reach the goal, but there was only one goal. In 2003, however, the Tiger Movement for the first and only time, suggested a temporary suspension of this goal, an interim regional autonomy instead of separatism for a period of trial of five years. This did not change the ultimate goal, but suspended its realization in time to create space for negotiations. The government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) rejected this proposal, called Interim Self Governing Authority (ISGA); The GoSL already had an ultimate goal, the preservation of the constitutional and centralized unitary state. This rejection threw both sides back to their starting point.
The martial method to reach the ultimate goal consisted of several different forms of armed struggle, which were parallel with the non-armed struggle; each time the non-armed struggle failed, the martial struggle gained momentum, from the 1970s to 2009. We count today four periods of war from 1983–2009, separated by truces and cease-fires, but not by peace. Combatants made extensive use of the martial method of voluntary death, which in media language goes under the name of suicide attack, belt bombing, etc. The media has made this an identity-marker of the Tiger Movement.
The Tiger Movement's martial methods comprised assassinations squads, whose task was to assassinate VIPs related to the GoSL, guerrilla attacks, martial methods of a standing army with specialized brigades, and attacks by deep penetrating units, often ending in voluntary death. The motto for all methods related to its ultimate goal was "the task of the Tigers is (to establish) Tamiḻīḻam." The combatants' determination was to act according to the norm do or die, which might end up as do and die—as it did in May 2009, the end of the Tiger Movement.
The leader of the Tiger Movement, Vēluppiḷḷai Pirapākaraṉ, held the firm view that methods may change (continuously), but the goal does not. He held the same ultimate goal, which was political, to establish Tamiḻīḻam based on the right of self-determination of a people. It was universal, he emphasized. He also referred to legal forms of violence in a national struggle for liberation from colonial and foreign domination (according, for example, to the United Nations General Assembly Resolution A/RES/33/24 of November 29, 1978).
The reason for actualizing the right of self-determination for Tamil speakers was the result of political, social, and economic discrimination, including 171 massacres, well documented by the North-East Secretariat of Human Rights (NESoHR). [NESoHR, Massacres of Tamils 1956–2008 (Chennai: Manitham Publishers, 2009). There is a German edition, which also contains the massacres by the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF). NESoHR, "Damit wir nicht vergessen …" Massaker an Tamilen 1956–2008. Mit einer Einführung von Professor (em) Dr. Peter Schalk (Heidelberg: Draupadi Verlag, 2012)]. These massacres amounted to genocide in the interpretation of the Tiger Movement, performed by the government of Sri Lanka from 1956–2009, and by the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF), during 1987–1990, with the assistance of deliverance of arms by India, the United States, the United Kingdom, China, and Pakistan. The Tiger Movement was well aware of geopolitical reasons why the United States and India would not allow Tamiḻīḻam to emerge. The unarmed and armed struggles by the Tiger Movement were to counteract a deeply felt injustice. The two methods were closely related to the ultimate goal, which gave the Tiger Movement a moral justification, though the world outside did not necessarily agree.
Today we see that both methods were unsuccessful and the ultimate political goal was not reached. The GoSL suppressed the peaceful methods, and the martial methods earned the Tiger Movement the classification of "terrorists" by the United States, the European Union, India, Sri Lanka, and several other states. The end of the Tiger Movement came in May 2009, but Tamil speakers still cultivate its ultimate political goal, especially in the worldwide, transnational diaspora.
The Tiger Movement (puli iyakkam) was only one half of the organization known as Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam (LTTE), founded in 1972 and reconstructed in 1976. The other half was known as the People's Movement (makkaḷ iyakkam). In an environment of lasting peace, we could speak of a military organization that was subordinated to a civil society, but in a war environment, the hierarchy was reversed. The People's Movement became supportive of the Tiger Movement in many ways. Civil tasks, like political administration, police, the judiciary, and the financial sectors were under the Tiger Movement in a de facto state, which was not recognized by any state.
GoSL based its claims for unity and the recognized sovereignty and integrity of its state on recognition by the United Nations and on a Constitution from 1972 and 1978. It insisted on the preservation of a centralized state-formation characterized as a unitary state, which made separatism, even non-violent agitation for separatism, illegal.
The ultimate goals of both parties, the recognition of the right of self-determination of a people and the preservation of the sovereignty of a state were incompatible. Confederalism and federalism were also rejected by the Tiger Movement, because they were too little, and by the GoSL, because they were too much.
Race and Religion in the United States
Ryan P. Jordan
For centuries before the European colonization of North America, sectarian, ethnic, and racial discrimination were interrelated. The proscription of certain groups based on their biological or other apparently ingrained characteristics, which is one definition of racism, in fact describes much religious prejudice in Western history—even as the modern term "racism" was not used until the 20th century. An early example of the similarities between religious and racial prejudice can be seen in the case of anti-Semitism, where merely possessing "Jewish blood" made one inherently unassimilable in many parts of Europe for nearly a thousand years before the initial European conquest of the New World. Throughout Western history, religious values have been mobilized to dehumanize other non-Christian groups such as Muslims, and starting in the 16th century, religious justifications of conquest played an indispensable role in the European takeover of the Americas. In the culture of the 17th- and 18th-century British colonies, still another example of religious and racial hatred existed in the anti-Catholicism of the original Protestant settlers, and this prejudice was particularly evident with the arrival of Irish immigrants in the 19th century. In contemporary language, the Irish belonged to the Celtic "race" and one of the many markers of this race's inherent inferiority was Catholicism—a religious system that was alternatively defined as non-Western, pagan, or irrational by many Anglo-Saxon Protestants, who similarly saw themselves as a different, superior race. In addition to the Irish, many other racial groups—most notably Native Americans—were defined as inferior based on their religious beliefs. Throughout much of early American history, the normative religious culture of Anglo-Protestantism treated groups ranging from African slaves to Asian or Middle Eastern immigrants as alternatively unequal, corrupt, subversive, or civically immature by virtue of their religious identity. Historians can see many examples of the supposedly dangerous religious attributes of foreigners—such as those of the Chinese in the late 19th century—as a basis for restricting immigration. Evangelical Protestant ideas of divine chosen-ness also influenced imperial projects launched on behalf of the United States. The ideology of Manifest Destiny demonstrates how religious differences could be mobilized to excuse the conquest and monitoring of foreign subjects in places such as Mexico or the Philippines. Anglo-Protestant cultural chauvinism held sway for much of American history, though since the mid-1900s, it can be said to have lost some of its power. Throughout its history, many racial or ethnic groups—such as Hispanic Americans, African-Americans, or Asian Americans in the United States have struggled to counter the dominant ethnic or racial prejudice of the Anglo-Protestant majority by recovering alternative religious visions of nationhood or cultural solidarity. For groups such as the 20th-century Native American Church, or the African American Nation of Islam, religious expression formed an important vehicle to contest white supremacy.
Religious Foundations of the Last Instructions of 9/11
Hans G. Kippenberg
An instruction manual consisting of four sheets in Arabic was found with three of the four teams that performed the terror attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001. The writing conceived of the action as a raid (ghazwa), as we know it from early Islamic history. It instructed the teams how to perform the ghazwa correctly. Purifying their intentions by recitals, rituals, and bodily cleaning, they turn their attack into an act of worship. A part called the "second stage" anticipates the issue of assuring divine protection at the airport. Finally "a third stage" urges the teams to act in the plane according the practice of the Prophet and to achieve martyrdom.
To understand the manual and its framing of the violence, six dimensions will be analyzed: (1) Arguments for and against the authenticity of the document are discussed. (2) The attack happened in the wake of a declaration of war by the "World Islamic Front for the Jihad against Jews and Crusaders" in 1998, signed by Osama bin Laden and leaders of other jihadist groups. (3) The message spread across the Internet and was accepted by various groups that regarded the situation of Islam as threatened, among them a group of young Muslim men in Hamburg. A network called al-Qaeda emerged. (4) The present world is dominated by the power of ignorance and hubris (jahiliyya). The manual prescribed an attack in terms of the raids (ghazwa) of the Prophet in Medina. (5) The manual presumes a particular communal form of organizing militant Muslims. (6) It celebrated militancy of Muslims and presupposed a fighter's ethos in the diaspora. An argument is made that the American concept of terrorism as a manifestation of evil and immorality destined to be eradicated militarily by the United States and their allies ignores the secular character of conflict and accelerates the cycle of violence.


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Bad-A** Cat Saves Boy from Crazy Dog Attack [VIDEO]
You can still be a dog person and appreciate this bad-a** cat.
Security footage captured a loose dog (totally unprovoked) attacking a little boy playing in his driveway. Then, to the rescue comes the family cat.
The boy required stitches for a pretty gruesome bite wound, but it could have been a lot worse. Maybe cat people aren't all that crazy.


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Sky & Telescope is now welcoming submissions to the Comet ISON Photo Contest.Even with the recent news that Comet ISON is intact and expected to survive perihelion, it's still difficult to predict what Comet ISON will do come November. Will it become a spectacle in the December pre-dawn sky? A mere speck? Or something in between?
Whatever happens, we know that in the coming months our readers will be out in the early-morning hours, taking spectacular images of the comet. Some already have!
In that spirit, Sky & Telescope is holding a Comet ISON Photo Contest, sponsored by Celestron. This is your chance to share your beautiful comet photos, with a chance to win one of three prizes from Celestron. The first prize is an 8-inch EdgeHD on Advanced VX Mount and the Skyris 274M Camera. Second prize is the Cometron 114AZ Telescope, and third prize is a pair of Cometron 12x70 Binoculars.
The contest starts today, October 25th, and we'll accept photo submissions until midnight EST on December 31st. We welcome entries of all types, including high-power telescopic photos and wide-field nightscapes. The main requirement is that Comet ISON be in the original exposure(s). For example, we won't accept a photo of the comet over the Golden Gate Bridge if ISON is pasted into a photo taken several years ago.
We'll accept as many as five entries per person, and there's no fee to participate. You'll retain the rights to your photos — we only ask permission to publish the winning photos on our website and in the April 2014 issue of S&T.
Ready to enter the contest? Submit your photos here!
Selecting the Winners
Once the deadline has passed, S&T editorial and art staffs will select about a dozen finalists. We'll post the images and photographer names on the website on January 8, 2014.
Then it's your turn! You'll be able to cast your votes for your favorite entry until January 22nd. We'll tally up the votes and announce the winners in the April issue of S&T and online.
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September 2007
One of the four pillars of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 is options for parents in educating their children. Under No Child Left Behind, local school districts must offer certain parents of students attending Title I schools identified as in need of school improvement, corrective action, or restructuring the option of selecting "public school choice" or "supplemental educational services" (SES) for their child. Access to these options by parents depends on two factors: student eligibility and the status of their child's school. For public school choice, all students enrolled in Title I schools that are in the first year of school improvement and subsequent years may participate. For SES, students from low-income families who are enrolled in Title I schools in the second year of school improvement and subsequent years are eligible.1
Public school choice gives parents of eligible students the option of transferring their child to another public school in their district. The transfer options available to parents through this provision of the law may include traditional public as well as charter, magnet, or virtual schools that are not identified for school improvement, corrective action, or restructuring. If more than one transfer option exists, a district must offer more than one choice to parents. Districts must pay for or provide transportation to the new school, subject to funding limitations.
Supplemental educational services are provided outside of the regular school day to increase student achievement and may include assistance such as tutoring, remediation, and other academic interventions. Parents of eligible students may obtain these services for their child free of charge from an approved SES provider of their choice. State education agencies (SEAs) are responsible for approving SES providers and providing local districts with lists of approved providers serving their area.
The public school choice and SES provisions of No Child Left Behind are integral components of district efforts to improve schools and increase individual student achievement. By expanding the field of schools available to parents, public school choice gives schools a greater incentive to undertake the reforms needed to improve student learning. By providing opportunities for students to receive additional high-quality instruction outside of school, SES also makes a key contribution to districts' improvement efforts. Both provisions aim to give students access to high-quality learning environments.
1 Title I schools are schools that operate programs funded under Title I, Part A of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, as reauthorized by No Child Left Behind. Title I schools that fail to make adequate yearly progress (AYP) in meeting state standards for two consecutive years are identified by their state education agency (SEA) as "in need of school improvement," and public school choice becomes available to students in these schools. Title I schools that fail to make AYP for a third year enter the second year of improvement status and must offer SES to eligible students along with public school choice. Title I schools that continue to fail to make AYP are subsequently identified for corrective action (after four years of not making AYP) and restructuring (after six years of not making AYP). Public school choice and SES options must remain available to parents of eligible students in these schools until the school is no longer in school improvement, corrective action, or restructuring. Title I schools exit improvement, corrective action, or restructuring status after making AYP for two consecutive years.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — Hyatt Hotels Corp. has reached a tentative contract with the union representing thousands of it employees, ending a four-year dispute that led to dozens of protests and a global boycott against the Chicago-based hotel chain.
The agreement between Hyatt and Unite Here announced Monday will go into effect once union contracts are approved by workers in Chicago, Honolulu, Los Angeles and San Francisco. The contracts would provide retroactive wage increases and keep employees' current health care and pension benefits through 2018.
Over the past two years, the union staged a number of one-day strikes in major cities to protest wages and working conditions.
Unite Here said the accord would end its global boycott of Hyatt that had support from other unions, workers' rights groups and civil rights organizations.


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Home Accidents
This is one of three pieces of NICE guidance published in November 2010 on how to prevent unintentional injuries among under-15s. A second publication covers unintentional injuries on the road and a third covers the provision of home safety equipment and home risk assessments.
This guidance is for commissioners and providers of health services, local authority children's services, local authorities and their strategic partnerships, local highway authorities, local safeguarding children boards, police, fire and rescue services, policy makers, professional bodies, providers of play and leisure facilities, and schools.
It is also for other public, private, voluntary and community organisations and services which have a direct or indirect role in preventing unintentional injuries among under-15s.
The recommendations cover:
- Planning and coordinating local activities.
- Workforce training and capacity building through national standards and curricula.
- Injury surveillance to monitor the incidence of unintentional injuries among under-15s and plan preventive initiatives.
- Fitting permanent safety equipment and carrying out home safety assessments
- Outdoor play and leisure, including policies to ensure public play spaces are safe, and education and advice on water and firework safety.
- Road safety, including strategies to help reduce vehicle speed in areas near where children and young people are present and managing road safety partnerships.
Please note: this guidance includes some of the information from NICE's draft guidance on Preventing unintentional injuries among children and young people aged under 15 - information, advice and education for outdoor play and leisure. Following the consultation on that draft guidance, NICE will not be publishing final guidance – see Preventing unintentional injuries among under 15s - outdoor play and leisure for further details, the draft guidance and supporting documents.
Follow the link for full details:http://guidance.nice.org.uk/PH29


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Coupling Experiments and Modeling to Understand Plasticity and Failure
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E-15: Strain Bursts Induce Quasi-elastic Non-linear Average Response in Nanopillar Compression
Hengxu Song, Stefanos Papanikolaou
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We present an investigation of the mechanical response of FCC nanopillars to uniaxial cyclic compression, through extensive two dimensional discrete dislocation dynamics (2D DDD) simulations. We observe typical size effects and avalanches statistics that are common in nanopillar compression, but also a striking average non-linearity of the stress-strain curves during reloading, that appears strongly correlated to the present dislocation density. Analogous non-linearities are typically observed in metallurgy but their origin has been obscure. Here, we show that the non-linear response is explained by the behavior of the average dislocation density during loading.
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A Survey of Several High-energy X-ray Diffraction Studies and Implications for Models of Polycrystal Plasticity
Challenges with Virtual Sample Instantiation for Prediction of Strain Localization and Crack Initiation in Polycrystalline Ni- and Ti-base Alloys
Characterizing the Effects a Smooth Crystal Lattice Orientation Field Formulation Has on the Evolution of Intragrain Deformation
Comparison of Parameters Required for Computational Models for Modeling Heterogeneous Deformation in Titanium Obtained with Different Approaches
Concurrent Multi-scale Modeling: Towards a Procedure to Test Modeling Hypothesis at the Mesoscale
Continuum Dislocation Dynamics at Finite Deformation and the Path toward Localization and Failure in Metals
Coupled Experiment and Modelling to Study Grain Orientation and Interaction Effects. Part 2
Coupled Experiment and Modelling to Study Grain Orientation and Interaction Effects. Part 1
Coupled Intergranular and Transgranular Fracture Modes in H.C.P. Alloys
E-10: Investigation of Deformation Mechanisms in Columnar Aluminum
E-11: Mechanism-based Modeling of Solute Strengthening: Application to Thermal Creep in Zr Alloy
E-12: Molecular Dynamics (MD) Evaluation of the Effect of Titanium Oxide Stoichiometry on Fracture
E-13: New Approach for Modeling Texture Effect on Macroscopic Plastic Properties of Metals
E-15: Strain Bursts Induce Quasi-elastic Non-linear Average Response in Nanopillar Compression
E-16: Strain Field Mapping and Modeling Around Laser-induced Keyhole Defects in Ti-7Al under Cyclic Loading
E-17: Using Machine Learning Approaches towards Quantifying the Deformation History of Crystals: Examples from Discrete Dislocation Dynamics
E-1: A Domain Decomposition Parallel Implementation of an Elasto-visco-plastic Fast Fourier Transform Micromechanical Solver with Spectral Database Constitutive Representation
E-2: An Image Based Finite Element Model for Ni-based Superalloys Using a Two Scale Constitutive Model Accounting for Morphological Distributions of γ' Precipitates
E-3: Annealing-detwinning due to Thermal Fluctuation of Incoherent Twin Boundary
E-4: Finite Element Simulation of Global Plastic Behavior of Supercritical CO2 Exposed P91 Metal-weld under Tensile Loading
E-5: Grain-scale Investigations of Deformation Heterogeneities in Aluminum Alloys
E-6: In-situ Characterization of Microstructural Damage in QP980 Steel
E-7: In Situ Mechanics at Atomic Scale – Experimental vs. Computational Molecular Dynamics
E-8: Influence of the Aluminum Microstructure in Electronic Components on their Failure Behavior: Experiments and Crystal Plasticity Simulations
E-9: Internal State Variable Plasticity-damage Modeling of AISI 4140 Steel Including Microstructure-property Relations: Temperature and Strain Rate Effects
Experimental and Computational Analysis of Deformation in Solid Solution and Precipitation Strengthened Ni-Cr-Co Alloys
Facile Measurements of Elastic Constants for Coupling Experiments and Modeling to Understand Plasticity and Failure
Geometrically Necessary Dislocations (GNDs) and Crystal Plasticity in HCP Metals
Improved Understanding of the Portevin–Le Ch�telier Effect though Modelling Using Discrete Diffusion Coupled with Discrete Dislocation Dynamics
Integrated Micromechanical Approaches to Understand Dwell Fatigue: Crystal and Discrete Dislocation Plasticity Modelling
Integrated Micromechanical Approaches to Understand Dwell Fatigue: In-situ Experiments from the Micro-scale Upwards
Integrating High Energy Diffraction Microscopy Data with Crystal Plasticity Models for Strength and Damage
Localized Deformation Fields in Hexagonal Close-packed Polycrystals
Measurements and Crystal Plasticity Simulations of Microstructure-scale Deformation in Tantalum
Mechanical Behavior of Polycrystalline Microscale Silver Pillars
Microstructure and Texture Evolution during Thermo-mechanical Processing of Low-symmetry Metals
Microstructure Evolution during Biaxial Load Path Changes: In-situ Experiments and Multi-scale FE-FFT Modeling
Microstructure Sensitive Crack Nucleation in PM Ni Alloys
Neighbour Effects on Grain Resolved Stress Distributions in Hexagonal Metals Revealed by 3D X-ray Diffraction Measurements
New Observations of Phase Transformations during Deformation in Superalloys and High Entropy Alloys: Experiments
New Observations of Phase Transformations during Deformation in Superalloys and High Entropy Alloys: Modeling
On the Role of Casting Pores in the Fatigue Damage Process of a Cast Aluminium Alloy
Opportunities for Validation of Grain-Level Plasticity and Fatigue Crack Growth Using High Energy X-ray Diffraction Microscopy; Part 1: Experimental Methods
Opportunities for Validation of Grain-Level Plasticity and Fatigue Crack Growth Using High Energy X-ray Diffraction Microscopy; Part 2: Modeling Development and Considerations
Plasticity of BCC Metals at Low Temperatures - Coupling Theory with Experiments
Rate Processes in Dislocation Dynamics: Effects on Dislocation Microstructure and Comparison with X-ray and TEM Data
Reliability of Slip Resistance Determination in Hexagonal Materials
Simulation Study on Plasticity and Fracture in Aluminum Based on Real Microstructures
Study of the Deformation of Mg-Y by In Situ EBSD and Visco-plastic Self-consistent Modeling
The Effect of Temperature on Deformation of CP-Ti
The Importance of Introducing Probabilistic Information When Modeling the Constitutive Response of Aggregates (Part II)
The Importance of Introducing Probabilistic Information When Modeling the Constitutive Response of Aggregates (Part I)
The Influence of Elastic Interactions on Local Stresses and Deformation Mechanism during Tensile Loading of Two-phase Titanium Alloys
Understanding Plastic Deformation in Polycrystals 301L Stainless Steel(301L SS) Using Far Field High Energy Diffraction Microscopy (HEDM) Experiments
Understanding Shear Band Formation Using High-resolution X-ray Diffraction and Numerical Modeling
Understanding the Fatigue Response of Each Crystal within a Copper Aggregate
Using 3D Microstructure Characterization to Study the Mechanics of Polycrystalline Materials
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UNDER THE SHADOW: The weak outlook offset an otherwise upbeat quarter through December, with adjusted earnings of 44 cents per share on revenue of $9.43 billion. Analysts expected 43 cents of earnings per share on revenue of $8.98 billion.


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Annual 'Stuff The Bus' School Supply Drive Gives You Chance To Donate To School Children In Need (Audio)
School in Lafayette Parish begins a week from Wednesday, and you may or may not have all those school supplies ready. But there are many of those that need a little help in getting those school supplies in order to be ready for that first day.
That's where United Way of Acadiana is stepping in with its Annual "Stuff the Bus" school supply drive. United Way of Acadiana's goal is to remove the obstacles for families and children to ensure that students begin the school year with the tools they need to succeed. The "Stuff the Bus" school supply drive ensures that students begin the school year equipped with the supplies they need to be ready to learn. "This is just a great opportunity for us to raise our hand for education in our community," says Keler Williams, director of
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Williams says United Way of Acadiana has been hosting this event for about 5 years. School buses will deliver school supply donations collected from Lafayette groups, companies, organizations and individuals to United Way of Acadiana to be sorted and packaged for delivery to students in schools in Acadia, Lafayette, St. Martin and Vermilion parishes. The packages will be sorted and packaged on August 13 from 1:30 p.m. until 4:30 p.m.
Williams says there are several drop off locations for you to make your donations. In Lafayette Parish, you can give at the United Way of Acadiana office on 215 E. Pinhook Road (337-706-1230), Lafayette Surgical Specialty Hospital, Lafayette Parish School Board Central Office and at IberiaBank on West Congress Street. In St. Martin Parish, volunteers will be at the Winn Dixie in Breaux Bridge collecting school supplies from 8:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. on Thursday. In Vermilion Parish, volunteers will be in Abbeville at St. Paul's Episcopal Church on Saturday from 8:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. Williams also says if you want to volunteer your time, helping them sort and pack the supplies, they would love for you to contact their main office on 215 Pinhook Road. (List of School Supplies To Donate)
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Remove Searchnu (Uninstall Guide)
Both domains are owned by IAC Search & Media, Inc. (formerly Ask Jeeves, Inc.). This company owns some other popular domain names as well, for example Ask.com. Alexa traffic rank for this website is amazing. It's one of the most visited sites on the web, and for some reasons it's very popular in Africa. We have a feeling that this site will be in the Top100 most visited sites very soon.
A quick search on Google shows searchnu to be a relatively widespread problem. This really isn't surprising considering the fact that searchnu.com home page and search-results.com web search engine provider are both promoted through the use of numerous very popular freeware, including Ilivid and some well known mp3 converters that are featured on Cnet. Very often, users use the typical installation option to install downloaded software. However, recommended installation is not always the preferred one. If you don't want to install certain components then simply select custom installation and choose what you truly want to install. And if you can't then look for alternatives. Let's take Ilivid setup as an example:
Typical installation includes Searchqu toolbar, searchnu.com and search-results.com. It sets and keeps searchnu as your default homepage and changes your default web search engine. This can be easily avoided by selecting custom installation. Let's assume that you got it with the Ilivid software (it might be any other software thought). Simply uninstalling this software won't help you to solve the burning issue. You need to uninstall every single installed component manually, including offending web browser add-ons and search engine providers. Searchnu indeed might be a bear to remove, especially in Mozilla Firefox. It changes the keyword.URL preference that cannot be changed directly from Firefox settings menu. No wonder why many users says it's a browser hijacker or even a virus. However, it's not a virus. It is detected as potentially dangerous program by Dr.Web only. Other antivirus software vendors do not detect it as dangerous and there's probably a good reason for that. So, don't blame your antivirus software for not detecting or isolating this "malware" because Searchnu.com is not a virus.
For step-by-step instructions on how to remove Searchnu (currently Searchnu.com/406) from your computer, please read the directions below. Please note, Searchnu settings apply in Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. If you need further assistance with this issue, please leave a comment below. Good luck and be safe online!
Added: Recent variants of Searchnu browser hijackers redirects users either to Searchnu.com/406 or Searchnu.com/421. I guess this is set using geo location tools, however, what's the difference between those two URLs isn't quite obvious. It is always best to read everything in the installation screens displayed by the software. This way, you can't miss the option where you can choose if you want toolbars or other junk or not. In addition, always read the Privacy Policy or UELA whenever installing a certain software. It may be tedious and time-consuming, especially if there is a wall of text with every page, but prevention is better than cure. Reading through each sentence is better than adding such clutter as Searchnu.com/421 to your browser.
If you have already accidentally installed toolbars or BHOs that you don't really want in the first place, regardless if you've done so consciously or not, you can still remove them. Unfortunately, not all software bundles with toolbars offer the option to uncheck these during installations.
Searchqu Toolbar removal instructions:
1. First of all, download recommended anti-malware software and run a full system scan. It will detect and remove this infection from your computer. You may then follow the manual removal instructions below to remove the leftover traces of this browser hijacker. Hopefully you won't have to do that.
2. Go to the Start Menu. Select Control Panel → Add/Remove Programs.
If you are using Windows Vista or Windows 7, select Control Panel → Uninstall a Program.
3. Search for Searchqu Toolbar, iLivid and Search-Results toolbar in the list. Select the program(s) and click Remove button.
If you are using Windows Vista/7, click Uninstall up near the top of that window.
Remove Searchnu Toolbar in Internet Explorer:
1. Open Internet Explorer. Go to Tools → Manage Add-ons.
2. Select Search Providers. First of all, choose Bing search engine and make it your default web search provider (Set as default).
3. Then select Search Results and click Remove to remove it.
4. Go to Tools → Internet Options. Select General tab and click Use default button or enter your own website, e.g. google.com instead of searchnu.com/406. Click OK to save the changes. And that's about it.
Remove Searchnu in Mozilla Firefox:
1. Open Mozilla Firefox. Click on the magnifying glass search icon as shown in the image below and select Manage Search Engines....
2. Choose Search Results from the list and click Remove to remove it. Click OK to save changes.
3. Go to Tools → Options. Under the General tab reset the startup homepage or change it to google.com, etc.
4. In the URL address bar, type about:config and hit Enter.
In the filter at the top, type: keyword.URL
Double click keyword.URL. Delete search-results.com and replace it with http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&q=
Remove Searchnu in Google Chrome:
1. Click on Customize and control Google Chrome icon and select Settings.
2. Click Set pages under the On startup.
Remove searchnu.com by clicking the "X" mark as shown in the image below.
3. Click Manage search engines button under Search.
4. Click Show Home button under Appearance. Then click Change.
Select Use the New Tap page and click OK to save changes.
5. Select Google from the list and make it your default search engine.
6. Select Search Results from the list remove it by clicking the "X" mark as shown in the image below.
7. Click on Customize and control Google Chrome icon. Go to Tools → Extensions.
8. Select iLivid New Tabs and click on the small recycle bin icon to remove the extension.
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134 comments:
- Anonymous said...
4/19/12 -- This was VERY helpful, thank you!! I have IE and Mozilla and the instructions worked perfectly. I'm going to continue to scan for malware.
Hopefully it hasn't done any more harm than being a giant pain in the a--.
- April 19, 2012 at 10:30 AM
- ramabhat said...
I tried to enter http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&q= in place of http://dts.searchresults.com in keyword.URL. However many times I tried , I found that this was impossible. The http://dts.searchresults.com entry refused to go away.
Any tips on this problem would be highly appreciated.
- April 22, 2012 at 10:14 PM
- Anonymous said...
Thank YOU! So much "help" out there that is actually more booby traps. This was great!
- April 22, 2012 at 10:34 PM
- Anonymous said...
Thank you very, very much. This took care of the problem and was easy to follow.
- April 23, 2012 at 10:27 PM
- Anonymous said...
Thank you so so much I don't know how , but I did it!!!
- April 24, 2012 at 4:32 AM
- Appreciate the Help! said...
thanks so much, this worked for me for both firefox and IE. Simple and easy to understand!
Nice I didn't have to install anything.
thanks a lot!
- April 27, 2012 at 12:51 AM
- Anonymous said...
For Firefox, how do you get to "tools" to set your homepage?
- April 27, 2012 at 8:57 PM
- Farhan Sayeed said...
I really don't have words to thank you, searched all over the net to get rid of this problem but just wasn't finding a solution, couldn't have done it without your help, once again thanx a millionnnnnnnnnnnnnn
- April 28, 2012 at 3:52 PM
- Anonymous said...
Brilliant and clear. Thank-you.
- April 30, 2012 at 1:26 PM
- Anonymous said...
Thankyouthankyouthankyou! Hooray!
- May 1, 2012 at 6:46 AM
- reason8 said...
Only site I found that explains exactly what the problem is and provides a FREE and very easy solution to the problem of this involuntary download.
We must all take more care when downloading software and particularly in accepting default settings that are not immediately obvious as to their effect.
I still think that the owners/authors of searchnu are guilty of sneaky tactics, which may not be strictly defined as spreading a virus but are certainly causing a lot of unnecessary pain for the average computer user.
- May 2, 2012 at 2:32 AM
- Allan Jeffcoatt said...
I have tried to follow the instructions but have 2 issues that prevent me. Firstly searchnu does not appear in my list of installed programs so I can't delete it from there.
Secondly the instructions tell me to open Internet Explorer but because searchnu has taken over I can't. What am I doing wrong please?
- May 2, 2012 at 4:51 AM
- Anonymous said...
Thank you so much. It helped me to rid of it for Firefox and IE.
- May 2, 2012 at 6:12 PM
- alex-m-g said...
Thank you for sharing! I hate when I accidentally download something with a hijacker or malware.
- May 4, 2012 at 6:13 AM
- Anonymous said...
The program to uninstall is "Windows Ilivid Toolbar".
This help guide is Very well done, easy for me to follow and did the trick for all three browsers.
Thank You
- May 4, 2012 at 7:16 PM
- Anonymous said...
thank you so much...I appreciate!
- May 6, 2012 at 7:59 PM
- Anonymous said...
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- May 7, 2012 at 7:05 AM
- Anonymous said...
This is absolutely fantastic and useful! I managed to clean up all three browsers!
- May 7, 2012 at 7:38 AM
- Anonymous said...
Aww man..that little booger was hard to get rid of, I had uninstalled iLivid and that didn't work..thx for the steps, had to do it several times, but that did it..
- May 7, 2012 at 8:09 PM
- Anonymous said...
Thank you soooo much! This help cleared things up. I was only trying to get some math equation templates for my 7 year old. Who would have thought downloading lividit can be problematic.
- May 8, 2012 at 12:43 AM
- rob said...
This worked at first, but when i rebooted my computer it all came back. i am running malware bytes because someone said it worked for them
- May 8, 2012 at 5:21 AM
- rob said...
malware bytes didn't detect anything. maybe because i had previously gone through these steps. i'm not sure why, but the homepage and keyword.url reverted back to searchnu when i rebooted my computer. however i changed them again and this seems to have fixed the problem (didn't revert back when i rebooted). maybe i just didn't confirm the change to the keyword.url or something.
thanks so much for your help!
- May 8, 2012 at 6:25 AM
- Anonymous said...
Thank you so much! I got searchnu yesterday when I downloaded ilivid and I had no idea that I downloaded it. This was very clear and i had no trouble following this. :)
- May 9, 2012 at 7:08 PM
- Anonymous said...
Thanks a lot. The only useful link I found on this issue. God bless you.
- May 10, 2012 at 7:59 AM
- Anonymous said...
I had the same trouble with the "http://dts.searchresults.com" entry reappearing (instead of the google URL replacement). Here's what worked for me:
1. Save your bookmarks in Firefox (do an "export" to .html).
2. Uninstall Firefox. Maybe a complete uninstall is necessary: when you're prompted, don't save any personal settings and customizations. You can try the incomplete install first to see if that's enough to fix the problem, but i doubt it since the 'keyword.URL' setting seems to be a customization.
3. Probably it's good to reboot after the uninstall.
4. Finally reinstall Firefox and import those bookmarks you saved in the first step.
I found this to be a relatively easy way to take care of the Firefox 'keyword.URL' issue.
- May 11, 2012 at 9:22 AM
- Anonymous said...
Thanks mate.
- May 11, 2012 at 11:56 PM
- Anonymous said...
yeaaa! thanks thanks :D
- May 13, 2012 at 6:13 AM
- Anonymous said...
you are a legend thank you :-)
- May 13, 2012 at 9:50 AM
- Anonymous said...
thanks very much!
- May 14, 2012 at 11:51 AM
- Anonymous said...
Thank you so much! Very helpful!
- May 19, 2012 at 10:23 AM
- Anonymous said...
These instructions were very clear and worked beautifully on Google Chrome. THANK YOU!
- May 23, 2012 at 7:28 PM
- Dorothy said...
Thank you for this! It did the job. What I cannot understand is why when I went to download ilivid, Norton Security gave the go-ahead (a "safe" note for ilivid in a little window on the bottom of the screen). Then, when I called Norton (in India!) to get help to get rid of searchnu and all the other garbage that slipped in with ilivid, they wanted to charge me a fee to clean up the mess. When I explained that their own system said ilivid was "safe," they basically called me a liar. So I told them to forget about it, that their help was no help at all and then I found this site! What is the point of Norton Security? If it wasn't for the fact that it came free with Comcast, I would dump it.
- May 27, 2012 at 8:38 PM
- ermin said...
Thanks, it worked!
- May 29, 2012 at 12:29 PM
- Anonymous said...
Thanks Very Very much! You guys rock.
As other mentioned, Norton doesnt catch it. In my opinion, anything that hijacks a browser is in the malware category, so how can Norton call it safe?
ILIVID is a piece of junk. They write on several forums to fool people, that its perfectly safe, while its NOT. I did a Whois.net search on Searchnu.com and it came up with some restaurant address in Scottsdale AZ.
- May 29, 2012 at 10:16 PM
- Anonymous said...
Thanks so much! I have been desperate to get rid of this.
- May 30, 2012 at 10:36 AM
- Skylar said...
This seemed to work fine for everything except my Google Chrome. It's not in the browser options anymore but when i open Chrome it's still there. Help!
- June 3, 2012 at 7:19 AM
- Ryan Hart said...
Excellent and fully accurate instructions! worked first time - and screenshots,too! WELL DONE
- June 5, 2012 at 4:05 AM
- Anonymous said...
Another big thank you! This worked uninstalling searchnu. Should I also try and uninstall livid? i am scared to do anything else!
- June 5, 2012 at 10:54 AM
- Roseanne said...
Thank you thank you thank you. I spent the best part of an hour and a half trying to work out how to get rid of this. I uninstalled the program but was still seeing this everytime I went into any browsers. I managed to get rid of it from IE by searching the registry and removing a reference to it there but these instructions, when I found them, were invaluable as I now know I have correctly removed everything. I thought I'd also got rid of it by resetting my home page on firefox but, by following your instructions, I saw there were still some settings that required to be changed. The problem now seems to be solved and this site is now in my bookmarks should I ever somehow manage to make the same mistake again.
- June 5, 2012 at 11:57 AM
- Anonymous said...
Skylar, try going back to the Chrome Settings, make sure that the "On Start Up" option is set to "Open the New Tab page" option, or if you want a specific pag to open make sure you edit that. I found my specific page had been changed to searchnu.
- June 6, 2012 at 4:09 AM
- Anonymous said...
u the shit.. sois un huevo.. it helped a lot
- June 6, 2012 at 2:29 PM
- Serkan said...
Thanks a lot! Really appreciated.
- June 7, 2012 at 8:17 AM
- Anonymous said...
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IT'S GONE!!! I AM ETERNALLY GRATEFUL TO YOU GUYS!!! I thought it would NEVER BE GONE!!! So again, THANK YOU!!!=D
- June 7, 2012 at 11:30 AM
- INDIANAPACER said...
- June 10, 2012 at 9:11 PM
- Anonymous said...
Excellent instructions, truly helpful. Thank you!
- June 11, 2012 at 7:18 AM
- Anonymous said...
Absolutely helpful and easy to do!! Thank you very much. Excellent sharing!
- June 13, 2012 at 1:21 AM
- Anonymous said...
Thank you very much for the very, very useful help !
Followed the instructions and it went very well for IE.
In the future I will read the acceptingagreements more carefully before downloading !
- June 13, 2012 at 1:00 PM
- Anonymous said...
Your instructions helped me with both Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer, thank you so much! To say you were helpful would be a vast understatement. THANK YOU!!! THANK YOU!!! THANK YOU!!! :)
- June 14, 2012 at 6:23 AM
- Anonymous said...
If you're ever in Ireland, I owe you a few drinks! Thank you, this was really helpful.
- June 14, 2012 at 11:46 PM
- Anonymous said...
Without visible reason, CorelDRAW X5 failed to start with error 'Cannot load CorelDrw.dll'. I could not find the reason, but while looking for any unusual features, found Searchnu that occupied Mozilla. Of course, I was far from suspecting it in disrupting CorelDRAW. However, as soon as I removed Searchnu by instructions given here, CorelDRAW restored normal work! I agree that 'after' is not the same as 'because', but since I did nothing else to restore CorelDRAW, now I suspect Searchnu of that malicious influence.
- June 15, 2012 at 12:10 AM
- Anonymous said...
I really love it when I can understand the directions and it actually works! Hurray!
- June 16, 2012 at 3:38 PM
- Anonymous said...
Pls add my thanks to all the above. It was a relief to see the old good Google page up in front without any highjacker on top.
- June 18, 2012 at 11:32 AM
- Anonymous said...
Thank you very much!!!!!!!!!! Great help!!!
- June 19, 2012 at 11:03 PM
- Anonymous said...
very helpful
Thanx a lot.
Rija from Madagascar
- June 20, 2012 at 5:41 AM
- Anonymous said...
thank you for the help!
- June 21, 2012 at 12:59 PM
- Anonymous said...
You are a wonderful human being for posting this <3
- June 21, 2012 at 9:45 PM
- Anonymous said...
Thanks a lot for your help.It is so nice of you!
- June 23, 2012 at 3:22 AM
- sea of glass said...
Thank u, your instructions helped me get rid of the searchnu.com/413. thanks for showing me how i accepted (searchnu)by clicking 'typical install'.--i've also kept your webpage for future reference and will pass it on to my friends. Thanks, -seaofglass
- June 23, 2012 at 7:35 PM
- mm images said...
Awesome ! Clear and easy to understand. I know we should all read the license agreements but sometimes we don't, and then we get caught out. The worrying thing about this program was not only that it took over every search engine, but also, when I asked to view my passwords in this searchnu, they were all shown, for all to see !! Very dangerous.. Thanks for your advice.
- June 27, 2012 at 4:27 AM
- Anonymous said...
THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH!!! This is exactly what I needed & it was written exactly how it is to be done!! It cleared up the problem I have been having for over a year!! You did a GREAT job & it was FREE!!! I am using Mozilla.
- June 27, 2012 at 4:53 AM
- Anonymous said...
- June 28, 2012 at 12:19 PM
- Anonymous said...
THANK YOU ! clear, easy to follow instructions - very much appreciated :D
- July 4, 2012 at 8:02 AM
- isaac said...
hi I'm trying to remove this problem from chrome but when I click 'manage search engines' the box that opens is completely blank. Nothing shows up under default search engines so I can't delete searchnu from that list and it doesn't allow me to simply add google as an other search engine either. Any help would be appreciated, I have already uninstalled the program using control panel and reset home page, it's just the search box/address bar in chrome which is the problem now. Thanks
- July 4, 2012 at 4:03 PM
- Anonymous said...
I'm having the same exact problem as that guy ^
- July 6, 2012 at 8:57 AM
- Mary Ellen said...
This was the best, clearest, most concise help I have ever gotten online for a problem. I am thrilled and I thank you many times over!
- July 6, 2012 at 11:44 AM
- Anonymous said...
Thank you so much for this helpful advice. I looked up so many search engines, but to no avail found no resolution. I was so close to taking a sledgehammer to my computer screen. Once again thank you for this blog! You are awesome!
- July 11, 2012 at 6:18 PM
- Marian Boyer said...
After two days we finally found the solution on this site, thank you SO VERY much, you saved the rest of our holidays!
- July 12, 2012 at 9:02 AM
- Anonymous said...
Thank you so much, this actually worked!!
- July 13, 2012 at 6:26 AM
- Francesco Masetti (Bologna - Italy) said...
Thank you very much from Bologna (Italy) you are very kind and good with these useful informations!
- July 15, 2012 at 10:13 AM
- Anonymous said...
Thank you!!!! it really works :)
- July 15, 2012 at 1:38 PM
- Anonymous said...
Instructive and efficient. Great work!
- July 16, 2012 at 12:42 PM
- Anonymous said...
Gracias desde España. Adiós al bastardo virus.
- July 19, 2012 at 1:52 AM
- Anonymous said...
Just wanted to thank you for your excellent and helpful instructions.
Very Glad that there are people like you on the net protecting us from deceitful people like those who peddle the Ilivid software and the like.
- July 19, 2012 at 11:36 AM
- Anonymous said...
Finally got rid of searchnu on Google thanks to your instructions. There is various help out there but yours is the only one that worked. I intend to be much more cautious with installs from now on and will only use Custom install. Well done and thanks from Dublin.
- July 20, 2012 at 2:01 AM
- Anonymous said...
Very helpful guide. Thank you.
- July 23, 2012 at 2:27 AM
- Anonymous said...
Thank you very much...It was really helpful..
- July 23, 2012 at 10:29 PM
- Anonymous said...
Muito obrigado, foi muito útil não sabia mais o que fazer...
paulo brasil
- July 25, 2012 at 3:43 AM
- Anonymous said...
2 weeks ago I took my laptop to DISCOUNT ELECTRONICS because the power jack was broken,(they are very unprofessional) and they returned it with this virus. I was in the middle of the process to remove it and a window opened telling me that my computer was protected against any "accidental" changes. I could not continue.
Can you help me?
- July 25, 2012 at 1:14 PM
- Anonymous said...
thanks much.
- July 25, 2012 at 3:36 PM
- Anonymous said...
Thank you! This has helped "big time". My ATT&T home page powered by Yahoo would not let me open the "today's highlights." Att&T got me only a short way in being able to open, by using Mozilla Firefox, but that was short-lived as soon as Seachnu saw what I was doing. I followed your instructions and there still must be some issues with IE 8, but that is okay, now I can open the highlights with Firefox. Thanks for all the help. So nice for people like yourselves to reach out and help others!
- July 28, 2012 at 7:31 AM
- Anonymous said...
Thank you so much for this, I thought I wouldn't be able to find a useful guide. :)
- July 29, 2012 at 11:22 AM
- Wai said...
Thank you so much for your guidance. It works and the malware found in my laptop has been removed!
- July 30, 2012 at 10:48 AM
- madhat said...
Thanks so much for your removal instructions. They are very helpful. I have one remaining problem in that when I open a second tab in Firefox, searchnu returns in the URL.
I have changed the home default to google, I thought.
Any suggestions on where it is hiding?
Again, much appreciation for your clear instructions.
- August 2, 2012 at 11:57 PM
- Anonymous said...
Thank, very very godd
- August 4, 2012 at 9:26 AM
- Anonymous said...
thank you so much!
- August 4, 2012 at 1:16 PM
- Anonymous said...
it worked once, but came back as soon as i re-opened google chrome! what do i do??
- August 4, 2012 at 1:21 PM
- Nescio said...
This didn't work for me, but looking in Program Files I found a SearchNu folder that had an uninstall program in it. Running that worked to completely remove this irritating hijacker.
- August 5, 2012 at 4:10 AM
- neelam gupta said...
OMG !What a relief! It was sticky.Thanks a lot.I will be careful in future what I freedownload. BTW it was ilivid ,newly downloaded on my pc.Thanks again.
- August 5, 2012 at 4:28 AM
- Riju Menon said...
thank you so much. Ws very useful for a novice like me
- August 10, 2012 at 10:29 AM
- Anonymous said...
Many thanks - very helpful.
- August 13, 2012 at 9:37 AM
- Anonymous said...
- August 13, 2012 at 11:27 AM
- jaybeehaitch said...
QUOTE: "it worked once, but came back as soon as i re-opened google chrome! what do i do??"
Solution: There is an option in settings called On start-up, which will be set to 'Open a specific page or set of pages'. You need to change this, either by selecting one of the other options, or changing the URL to that of your homepage.
- August 13, 2012 at 12:08 PM
- Mike Samuels said...
Thanks for your excellent and easy to follow help.
'Livid' made me just that, I now know to check before I download.
- August 14, 2012 at 1:30 AM
- Anonymous said...
Thank you so much for this info! It worked perfectly and removed it from my computer and web browser.
- August 14, 2012 at 7:32 PM
- Anonymous said...
There is no such a word would be sufficient to tell you, you are the man.....Thanks from Derby
- August 17, 2012 at 1:15 PM
- Anonymous said...
It didn't help me!! :(
I have Google Chrome and I followed the instructions... but I don;t have basics in my "Settings", Is that a problem??
Can anyone help me uninstall this pain in the a**??
- August 17, 2012 at 4:35 PM
- Anonymous said...
- August 20, 2012 at 4:07 AM
- Anonymous said...
Ah ha! THANKS VERY MUCH!
- August 25, 2012 at 8:18 AM
- Anonymous said...
- August 26, 2012 at 2:16 PM
- Anonymous said...
i didnt realise and did it on internet explorer first and it worked but i carred on reading and realised there was one for google chrome, i have done it twice but it hasnt worked help me please??
- August 28, 2012 at 4:03 AM
- Anonymous said...
Thank you so, so, so much. This is about a hundredth of the headache I was expecting to deal with!
- August 31, 2012 at 3:13 PM
- Boogs said...
THANKS SIR,YOU ARE THE BEST, was able to remove that annoying searchnu :) THanks
- September 2, 2012 at 7:34 PM
- Anonymous said...
Thank you!!! This was fabulous! Only thing I can't get back to is that with IE 9, when I clicked on a new tab, it showed me blocks with recent internet activity (google, facebook, etc.) and now I don't have that and I liked it:-( But at least I don't have searchnu:-) Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!! Great, clear instructions!!!
- September 5, 2012 at 7:33 PM
- Anonymous said...
Thank you so much!!! the IE instructions were so clear.
- September 6, 2012 at 6:16 PM
- Cassandra Vankeuren said...
Google Chrome
Click on the wrench
Then click settings
Under start up
click Open a specific page or set of pages. Set pages
Under set pages delete search results and select www.google.com
the follow the instructions about manage search engines.
This should help!
- September 13, 2012 at 10:28 AM
- Anonymous said...
i cant do that !
please hack my computer and delete that ! :TrollFace:
- September 13, 2012 at 7:13 PM
- Anonymous said...
I have followed all these google chrome instructions, and this malware still exists when a new tab is opened.
What can be done now?
- September 19, 2012 at 4:45 AM
- Leon Victor said...
Thanks for sharing nice information for Searchqu Toolbar removal instructions and how to settings apply in Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.
- September 26, 2012 at 4:09 AM
- Anonymous said...
it's still showing up when I click on a new tab in Firefox. Help! Thanks!
- September 26, 2012 at 4:51 PM
- TS said...
now every time I load Firefox about-config comes up with the list. why?
- October 7, 2012 at 1:42 PM
- Anonymous said...
Thanks a lot for you. Now i can get rid searchnu from my browser...
- October 11, 2012 at 8:20 AM
- Anonymous said...
google chrome appears no longer w/"wrench"....now 3 horizontal lines in a button...this path is explained in "help home>get started>new to chrome?" ...tree
The very minor misfires in the original super post have been picked up in the comments, illustrating the importance of reading clear through to the end...
thank you everyone!!!
- October 21, 2012 at 2:31 PM
- Anonymous said...
many thanks guys...
- October 24, 2012 at 7:59 AM
- Anonymous said...
Thank you! Wonderful guide. May the sun and moon beam rainbows and health and prosperity onto you and your children and their children for all eternity.
- October 26, 2012 at 12:21 AM
- Anonymous said...
Thanks very much, normally don't get caught out by this sort of thing. Cheers again.
- November 7, 2012 at 7:45 AM
- Anonymous said...
Thank you so much that was big help
- November 9, 2012 at 1:22 AM
- Anonymous said...
- November 10, 2012 at 9:57 AM
- Anonymous said...
You are so AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you very, very MUCH. :) @>
- November 13, 2012 at 7:26 AM
- Anonymous said...
Great!At last it's gone!
Very clear steps...U r just superb!
Thanks a ton :):)
- November 25, 2012 at 5:00 AM
- Zsuzsa Szűts said...
Thank you, this was a correct and clear solution, I am grateful!
- December 5, 2012 at 2:15 PM
- Anonymous said...
Brilliant. Thanks for helping with this.
- December 10, 2012 at 2:37 AM
- JohnWShoemaker said...
Very helpful...
Thought I would pass on what worked for me to help save the frustrations this causes.
1) I tried doing all the uninstalls and still not working...when I opened a new tab in chrome..it gave me an error message and didn't open up the normal page...something was wrong.
2) When I went to settings.. Open a specific page or set of pages. Set pages...and clicked on there...it gave another place to check what was running...I clicked on "Use Current Pages" listed..and it showed Searchnu was still live in there...erased it..it reset itself...so i erased it...and reset page as a google page. Still didn't work. Point is it was still showing as an active page even though I had removed it elsewhere.
3) Went and installed Malware Bytes..ran it..came up with 7 problems..corrected them..and I was good.
Thanks to all who kept this to a minor aggravation...
- December 14, 2012 at 10:21 AM
- Anonymous said...
I deleted this searchnu from programs and now all I get when i turn on cpu is blue screen. What do I do know?? Please help
- December 19, 2012 at 6:50 PM
- Anonymous said...
ramabhat said...
I tried to enter http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&q= in place of http://dts.searchresults.com in keyword.URL. However many times I tried , I found that this was impossible. The http://dts.searchresults.com entry refused to go away.
Any tips on this problem would be highly appreciated.
Hi ramabhat,
I had the same problem. You first have to go to Control Panel > Uninstall A Program > find the Search-Results or Searchnu program [it will show as installed on the same date as the other junk software installed (iLivid, etc.)] and uninstall it. Then return to the About:Config, Keyword.url page and enter the google string again. This time it should work.
Good Luck!
- December 22, 2012 at 8:27 AM
- Anonymous said...
thank you so much. i struggled with this for days. very helpful and very appreciated.
- December 22, 2012 at 2:03 PM
- Anonymous said...
i did everything in the instructions but some of the things arent even ther to delete, and ive still got
- January 1, 2013 at 6:24 AM
- Anonymous said...
THANK YOU SO MUCH! It worked perfectly for IE and firefox!
- January 1, 2013 at 10:50 PM
- auschuck said...
Bless You for your help. I did as you suggested - BINGO! It got rid of that 126.96.36.199 IP that was driving me crazy (short trip). In the process I got rid of a ton of other crap that was nesting in my computer. One of the most beneficial things that I read and did in addition to your suggestions was to run a boot time scan with Avast. It found a ton of other junk that had managed to find it's way "in". Now the computer runs like a new OS reinstall!! A MILLION THANK YOU'S!!
- January 8, 2013 at 2:28 PM
- Uma said...
Thank You very much for the detailed and simple instructions. They helped in removing the malware from IE,Firefox and Chrome. First i thought of reinstalling the OS. Then i came across this wonderful site. Thank You again.
- January 14, 2013 at 11:25 PM
- rst said...
i followed every step, everything ok, but when i open a new tab, searchnu still appears (mozilla) ..what about that?!
- February 21, 2013 at 1:47 AM
- Anonymous said...
Thank you! Awesome instructions.
- March 16, 2013 at 6:25 PM
- Anonymous said...
I just had Norton put on my system and spyware cleaned off at a very hefty $230 price!!!
Only three days later the searchnu as well as some other malware is again on my machine. These programs do not even SHOW UP in my uninstall programs files. Nowhere to be seen, so all this isn't helping me really.
- March 24, 2013 at 4:24 PM
- THANK YOU said...
This was so helpful!!!! I couldn't figure out why my Chrome browser wouldn't let me search anything! My malware program was instantly blocking anything from that dumb scam search engine. THANK YOU!!!
- April 6, 2013 at 3:16 AM
- Anonymous said...
thank you I think I cleaned all 3 browsers, but wouldn't have found half of those without this help.
- June 12, 2013 at 6:30 PM


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