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web searchers - George midleton - 01-05-2015 Yesterday i was downloading from pirate bay and then a program call websearchers started to download i was pressing cancel and exit button but it continue to install itsellf at the end my browser changed to websearchers the pc is full of ads and at the task bar i can see a program which is called searc protect and today a program called my pc back up instaled while i was downloading from cnet RE: web searchers - GuiltySpark - 01-05-2015 I thought piratebay was closed down! RE: web searchers - Britec - 01-05-2015 Hi George, Sounds like you're using proxy server to access Pirate Bay database that someone has manage to save and upload, because its been taken down by the Police. These Proxy Servers are full of malware.  If you are going to continue to use Torrents or Download Pirate content, you better know what your doing, because you are going to keep getting infected. Please try running AdwCleaner. Please download AdwCleaner (by Xplode) and save it to your Desktop Right-click on AdwCleaner.exe and Run as administrator. Click Scan. (AdwCleaner will now scan for Adware.) Once scan finishes, click Clean, now follow the on screen prompts. Your computer should now reboot. A log file will automatically open. Please Copy and Paste when you replay in your next post. Note: The log can also be found in here: C:\AdwCleaner\ RE: web searchers - Timster - 01-06-2015 There are mirror sites that have popped up over here in states however downloading from any torrent site is at your own risk.