Why has Bing stopped working for me?

patchbunny

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I usually use Bing for a search engine, but when I tried this evening, I cannot get any hits when I search for images. Doesn't matter what it is, I get a message that says no images were found. The web search works. Just images and videos fail.

I had trouble yesterday downloading a cbr reader from Cnet.downloads that installed a bunch of crap on my PC, and I should have removed it all. It did dump Whitesmoke into the default search in the dropdown search window in the Firefox browser. I uninstalled what I could find, changed the dropdown menu to Bing (though I never use that window, the fact it changed bugged me). I don't know if there's a connection or not with this problem.

Anyone know what's going on?
 
Sorry, I do not - but if you find out what happened, please let me know so I can disable it. I am really annoyed at the way it tries to take over my computer when it decides I want it to look up something for whyever it decides same.
 
Freaking Whitesmoke, I hate that bastard piece of malware.

I suggest you use a four stage cleaning, Go to


http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/rkill/
Download Rkill to your desk top

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/tdsskiller/
Download TDSS Killer to your desktop

http://majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=5756
Download malwarebytes installer

http://www.majorgeeks.com/SUPERAntiSpyware_Free_d5116.html
download SAS installer

Run RKill as admin from the desktop, run it if you have to restart during this process, it stops malware processes

Run TDSS Killer as admin form the desktop, update if asked and scan, remove if sugegsted

Install and run Malwarebytes, disable the Pro trial, remove selected after scan and reboot if asked. Check any .PUPs that it finds, unless they are programs you want.

Install adn run SAS, remove selected, which will mostly be cookies, Check any .PUPs that it finds, unless they are programs you want.

Should find and remove all Whitesmoke. Uninstall SAS, uninstall Malwarebytes.

Did you get this from the main C-Net or from download.com?
 
I am getting the same behaviour in Firefox, no images when doing a Bing image search but in my case it seems to be related to one of my plugins, HTTPS Everywhere. Disabling the plugin resolves the issue for me. I had no problems using IE.
 
ohms said:
I am getting the same behaviour in Firefox, no images when doing a Bing image search but in my case it seems to be related to one of my plugins, HTTPS Everywhere. Disabling the plugin resolves the issue for me. I had no problems using IE.
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Unfortunately, I have the same problem in IE. :P
 
Started working again! Not sure which action overall did it. None of the previous scans found anything, but I did all the steps and ran 'em all anyway.

Now, how do I get rid of this sob?

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patchbunny said:
Started working again! Not sure which action overall did it. None of the previous scans found anything, but I did all the steps and ran 'em all anyway.

Now, how do I get rid of this sob?

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Click Manage Search Engine, click on it then Remove.
 
I haven't run into Whitesmoke yet, but it sounds similar to something called Fast Browser Search. It took me forever to completely remove that thing. My wife installed it when she downloaded some Facebook add-on or something.
 
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