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always_comping
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Hi, im using a advent laptop on windows 7 and up till yesterday everthing was fine, now on some sites i try to go to on google it redirects me to other sites and i now cannot see any captcha's on forms, when i click help it says this:
Unusual traffic from your computer network
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Unusual traffic from your computer network
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- When Google detects that a computer on your network may be sending automated traffic to Google we may show the following message: "Our systems have detected unusual traffic from your computer network." Automated queries are against our Terms of Service.
- The error page most likely displays a CAPTCHA (a squiggly word with a box below it). To continue using Google, type the squiggly word into the box -- it's how we know you're a human, not a robot.
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go to windows restore
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/features/system-restore
go back to yesterday and see if its ok ...
then update malwarebytes and scan againEx forum ambassador
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done that now, still wont work and nothing found0
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See if anything's obvious on Hijackthis. Save this to your desktop, then hold LEFT SHIFT and RIGHT CLICK on it, then Run As Administrator or Run As (current user), then do SYSTEM SCAN and SAVE LOG, don't fix anything, post the log that comes up in notepad.
http://www.trendmicro.com/ftp/products/hijackthis/beta/HijackThis.exe
Might be pointless though if you are botted. Did you say you don't see the "captcha" thing to type the squiggly?
Try SAS portable. You can save time and do a custom scan, and get it to scan only Memory, Registry, Startup locations, and custom folder, and point it directly at the c:\windows\system32 folder.
http://www.superantispyware.com/sasportable.php
Try the Microsoft Malicious Software Tool, but you'll have to know if your OS is 32bit or 64bit. If you RIGHT CLICK on 'My Computer' then do properties, you'll get the System information and it'll say in there. Similarly when you run the Microsoft scanner, you can save some time and just point it to scan the c:\Windows folder:
64bit:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=585D2BDE-367F-495E-94E7-6349F4EFFC74
32bit:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyId=AD724AE0-E72D-4F54-9AB3-75B8EB148356&displaylang=en
Hitmanpro is relatively quick, again you have to pick 32bit or 64bit:
http://www.surfright.nl/en/hitmanpro
Dr Web is another that might be effective: https://www.freedrweb.com/download+cureit/gr/?lng=en I would do the default 'express scan' first, and only the full scan afterwards as a cleanup if you found anything.
Lastly, Combofix, but you'll have to carefully read the instructions on how to use it, and post a log for Alienrik to read:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/combofix/how-to-use-combofix
I'm not saying that you should only scan the system folder, just that doing full scans can be pointless and time consuming until you break the main nasty. After one of them gets a detection from the system files, clean that and then start doing some full scans. Preferably you would mount the hard drive offline and get another computer to run the scan.0 -
How have you gotten on?0
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scan with tdsskiller too!!
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Oh okay, thought they were for different computers.
In the end I didn't ask Alienrik to look at it, as given that it was a new computer you'd be better off reinstalling it for many reasons.
There are a whole bunch of folders I would check out manually though (in c:\users\maryg43\AppData\Local\).0 -
Oh okay, thought they were for different computers.
In the end I didn't ask Alienrik to look at it, as given that it was a new computer you'd be better off reinstalling it for many reasons.
There are a whole bunch of folders I would check out manually though (in c:\users\maryg43\AppData\Local\).0 -
always_comping wrote: »thanks but i wouldnt know where to start about reinstalling?
How did you get it without an antivirus? IIRC it was from your dad? Did he use it without an antivirus, or did he wipe it and reinstall ready for you?0 -
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