Google/Virus

[Sloshman]

So for the past couple of hours I've been worming my way around the internet working on getting a dvd burner. While doing this i turned off my windows firewall for a bit and turned it back. (Problems with the program if anyone asks why) Now whenever i try to google anything it just locks up for a minute or two then redirects me to a spam site. Could this be due to a virus or did someone mess with Google???

[smartAXE]

most likely not google, more probable would be the browser you use.

[Sloshman]

Chrome lol....


Also if it matters. The redirect only occurs once the search results have appeared and i try to go to one of them.

[smartAXE]

i use chrome aswell, i get small bugs with it(on this site is where i get my problems, but mods and such know the issue with chrome). have you already DL'd any burner drives?
also do a yahoo search and see if you get a redirect

[Bann]

What are you being redirected too?

[smartAXE]

What are you being redirected too?

more importantly what are you searching aswell? are you googling the same thing, then always going to the same link and getting redirected?

[Sloshman]

Mainly spam sites. I've googled a few different thinks and keep getting redirected to different things.


Edit Edit: Browser Hijacking... Only happens when i go through a search engine on any browser. Can anyone direct link me to something to remove malicious software?

[Bann]

http://www.malwarebytes.org/

---------- Post added 2011-10-23 at 03:27 AM ----------

Also: http://www.safer-networking.org/index2.html

If its proving more difficult, http://majorgeeks.com have a whole collection of free/shareware to remove it,

[Sloshman]

Well i keep getting errors when i try running certain programs. "Cannot access specified device path or file" When i try and run Malware Bytes. I'm downloading Spybot right now. This thing is bogging down my browsers.

[Deleted]

Sounds like your Firewall isn't very good or it complained about the stuff you were searching for/downloading. Probably shouldn't turn it off in that case.

http://www.filehippo.com/download_ma..._anti_malware/

http://www.filehippo.com/download_superantispyware/

Download and run both.

[Arcilux]

Its not google, although it is normally called the google redirect virus. The first result:

http://redirectvirusgoogle.blogspot.com/

[Sloshman]

Well still having trouble running programs. When i ran Spybot it got rid of all threats besides one. Talked about it being in critical files and reproducing quicker than it can be deleted and recommended booting from a CD. I was planning on reformatting anyway so i had recently backed up anything i needed. Thanks for all the help though lo....

[Bann]

http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd