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Google Redirect Virus...again
Name: c_leigh Date: March 25, 2009 at 11:30:57 Pacific OS: Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition CPU/Ram: 1.695 GHz / 502 MB Product: Sony / Vgn-fs950 Subcategory: Viruses
Comment:
I have contracted another, different Google redirect virus. It is causing Firefox to crash and my system to run slowly.
I would be sincerely grateful for any and all help you can offer to resolve this as quickly as possible.
Name: XpUser4Real Date: March 25, 2009 at 13:10:51 Pacific
Reply:
you may want to download these three progs, all free and located in the link on my signature, run them in this order: 1- Ccleaner Slim, remove all it finds 2- Malwarebytes remove all it finds 3- Avast free, install it and let it do a bootscan on reboot and move all it finds to the chest. That should clean it out for you and get you back on track. Then I would suggest unloading the AV you are using now as you cannot run two AV's at the same time, they will conflict.
Name: boyarsky Date: April 4, 2009 at 16:13:08 Pacific
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XpUser4Real, I've had this virus for about a week. After trying many things that didn't work, I came across this post which did. Thank you!
I've had Avast since before I got the virus. Avast didn't find it on several runs. While Ccleaner didn't find anything, Malwarebytes did. After Malwarebytes deleted the file, all of a sudden Avast realized there was a virus and scheduled the bootscan/cleanup. And now all better.
I'm buying Malwarebytes - it did what many other products did not!
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Response Number 3
Name: rws_killer Date: April 4, 2009 at 19:09:09 Pacific
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yep malewarebytes is prob 1 of the best scanners.
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Response Number 4
Name: XpUser4Real Date: April 4, 2009 at 21:30:49 Pacific
Reply:
glad it worked out for you, thanks for posting back!
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