Spyware modify browser history?

[TheGameAh]

Question guys. Can malware or a virus of any kind modify a browser's history? I ask because someone asked me. They started typing in an address, and the history came up as they were typing of course. In this history were adult sites. I'm not talking about pop ups, mind you, but the browser's history. I answered I didn't think so. I know malware can do all kinds of crap, but I never heard of it putting in your history sites you never went to.

Any more opinions?

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Question guys. Can malware or a virus of any kind modify a browser's history? I ask because someone asked me. They started typing in an address, and the history came up as they were typing of course. In this history were adult sites. I'm not talking about pop ups, mind you, but the browser's history. I answered I didn't think so. I know malware can do all kinds of crap, but I never heard of it putting in your history sites you never went to.

Any more opinions?

But did they have popups occurring from adult sites? That will definitely leave a mark in history. Spyware can leave behind cookies, bookmarks and the like, I guess I don't see why it would be outside of the realm it could even leave tracks in the browser history for sites you had never pointed a browser to. Doesn't sound too far-fetched to me, but I've never seen that on my machine.

Some good freeware cleaners don't hurt to get all that crap out after you run your spyware scans. Plus you get the added bonus of getting rid of temp files, etc. A few I like:

Crap Cleaner/CCleaner

CleanMoCache (Mozilla and FireFox) and CleanCache (IE)

Internet Sweeper