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virus / spyware which redirects search results
chunter
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I've seen this a couple of times in the last month on both Vista and XP machines.
AVG Free is not catching it.
It's taking google search and yahoo search words and bouncing them off to some other search engine to return other results.
Marvellously ingenious, but it's an absolute nuscience.
I'll post the redirects later.
HjackThis is not deleting it either.
It's doing it in both Firefox and Internet Explorer
It's doing it across user accounts in XP. Not sure about Vista.
Anybody got this and found a way of shifting it (rather than Restore or Reformat)?
AVG Free is not catching it.
It's taking google search and yahoo search words and bouncing them off to some other search engine to return other results.
Marvellously ingenious, but it's an absolute nuscience.
I'll post the redirects later.
HjackThis is not deleting it either.
It's doing it in both Firefox and Internet Explorer
It's doing it across user accounts in XP. Not sure about Vista.
Anybody got this and found a way of shifting it (rather than Restore or Reformat)?
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I've seen this a couple of times in the last month on both Vista and XP machines.
AVG Free is not catching it.
It's taking google search and yahoo search words and bouncing them off to some other search engine to return other results.
Marvellously ingenious, but it's an absolute nuscience.
I'll post the redirects later.
HjackThis is not deleting it either.
It's doing it in both Firefox and Internet Explorer
It's doing it across user accounts in XP. Not sure about Vista.
Anybody got this and found a way of shifting it (rather than Restore or Reformat)?
Try downloading, installing, updating and running a Quick Scan with Malwarebytes' AntiMalware0 -
Try downloading, installing, updating and running a Quick Scan with Malwarebytes' AntiMalware
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