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Search Engine Redirect virus
Name: chrisevans10 Date: December 9, 2008 at 11:06:26 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: not sure Product: Dell / 1520
Comment:
Alright, I need help, this thing is driving me crazy...I had McAfee and now I'm using Nod32 and neither of them pick up this search engine redirect. Everytime I search from most search engines, ie: Google, yahoo, when I click the results it redirects me to another site instead of the site I want. Also I had downloaded google chrome but now it won't open any pages.
Name: stevem5000 Date: December 10, 2008 at 19:39:34 Pacific
Reply:
Download MBAM, and SuperAntiSpyware...you will probably have to download them on a different computer, save them to a USB drive...then install them to your desktop and run the tools...
Run MBAM exactly as directed from the website...you may not be able to update it...but run it anyway...
Then boot into safe mode with networking and see if you can update it and run it again...
If you can update and run it, the reboot and run SuperAntiSpyware...see where that puts you...
If that does not do it, you might be looking at a reformat and reinstalling Windows...
good luck
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Response Number 2
Name: Albert E Date: December 24, 2008 at 06:11:18 Pacific
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I have had this same problem, down to the same issue with google Chrome. By the way, if for the time being you need to search, it seems not to have affected Goodsearch.com.
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Response Number 3
Name: Albert E Date: December 24, 2008 at 08:18:45 Pacific
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On closer investigation, it may be posing as the google toolbar
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Response Number 4
Name: stevem5000 Date: December 24, 2008 at 12:30:01 Pacific
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I read somewhere last week, that the Google Chrome was not as secure as IE6 is... Which is not very good...
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