"Bob Hobden" wrote in message
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"Roger Tonkin" wrote

Had a google, and text-enhance does not seem very popular, with many
people calling it a virus. Lots of advice on how to remove it as well.

Below is a typical post!

Annoying with Text-enhance.com Virus?
Text-enhance.com has been known as a browser hijacker which is able to
take control of your web browsers and all kinds of search engines.
Actually, this Text-enhance.com virus is not the latest infection but it
still affected computer users all day round. This hijacker is somehow
looks like Partner37.Mydomainadvisor.com which also came out long time
ago. They can infect a system badly if users didn't remove them
completely. However, it is really frustrating when users find this Text-
enhance.com virus cannot be removed by any legit anti-virus programs.
And Text-enhance.com is able to cause many other problems on the
infected computer which may finally crash down your system. There are
too many removal guides online now, but lots of them are recommending to
use a legit removal tool. But to be frank, the most useful and effective
way to remove this Text-enhance.com virus is by manual approach with
expert skils. For many hijacker like Text-enhance.com is able to mutate
fast. so it is difficult to be removed completely by the removal tools.


A friend has now mailed me this.....

Text Enhance is Malware as opposed to a virus as such, what it actually
is, is an add-on to your browser which then creates these pop up boxes
when you hover over certain text.
It is nothing to do with the sites you're visiting, it's on your computer.

Here is a good article on what it is and how to remove it:

http://botcrawl.com/how-to-remove-text-enhance/

It appears then that this gets past McAfee and Defender!
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Regards. Bob Hobden.
Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK


But not AVG as I had never heard of it!

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