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I was reinstalling Windows (namely installing Windows 8 instead of Windows 7). But then Chrome suddenly closed. When I started it again, it had that annoying en.v9.com home page.

I don't know how to get rid of it. I tried removing the argument in Chrome's shortcut and changing Chrome settings (Set pages). Also, it made itself the default search engine and who knows what else. I thought that it must be µTorrent's doing. So I decided to:

  1. Reinstall Windows once again
  2. Give Tixity a try. To my surprise, just after installing Windows 8 and running Internet Explorer, I saw that very en.v9.com page again.

I'm now going to reinstall Windows once again, but move the content of the disk into a folder first, so that Windows doesn't inherit anything, if that's what's happening.

I'm open to your suggestions. I doubt reinstalling windows will do any better. Also, do you know by any chance what it is and where it came from? I saw a similar report on µTorrent's forum.

UPDATE I reformatted the hard drive, installed Windows and I can't see en.v9.com anywhere now.

x-yuri
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You visited a site or loaded an app which buried en.v9.com into your Registry and, since Chrome's your default, it opens with Chrome.

If you edit c:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts by opening Notepad with Run as Administrator (steps shown herein) to add this line

127.0.0.1       en.v9.com

then any request to go there ends up in the Bit Bucket,which works with all kinds of obnoxious websites summoned by crudware and crudsites with crud javascripts.

K7AAY
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