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OT:Google hijack

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Twayne

Flightless Bird
In news:i3eev9$83n$1@speranza.aioe.org,
The poster formerly known as 'The Poster Formerly Known as Nina DiBoy'
<me369@privacy.net> typed:
> Doum wrote:
>> Sorry, I'm aware it's not exactly the right group but if
>> you can guide me in the right direction.
>>
>> When I do a search in Google and I click on a result, I'm
>> redirected to all sort of pages that have nothing to do
>> with my search. I did a scan with ZoneAlarm Security suite,
>> SuperAntispyware Pro and Malwarebytes. Malwarebytes found
>> one infected file and remove it but it wasn't related with
>> the Google problem. Any idea.
>>
>> This time, Google is NOT my friend.
>>
>> TIA

>
> I bet you are using IE. This browser hijack likely has
> nothing to do with google. Have you tried Spybot yet? Also clear out your
> temp internet folders and jars if you
> have java installed.


Spybot also makes hosts entries on its own. It's worth checking them see if
a user inadvertantly added a Google address to spybot s&d by accident.
Fortunately, with spybot, it also puts headers in the hosts file so you can
tell which ones were added by spybot. There are other programs that do the
same thing. I find it a very useful feature and as such usually run spybot
before I run other malware detectors.

HTH,

Twayne`
 
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Doum

Flightless Bird
Doum <me@domain.net> écrivait
news:XnF9DCB4B11CD96Ddoumdomainnet@207.46.248.16:

> Sorry, I'm aware it's not exactly the right group but if you can guide
> me in the right direction.
>
> When I do a search in Google and I click on a result, I'm redirected
> to all sort of pages that have nothing to do with my search.
>
> I did a scan with ZoneAlarm Security suite, SuperAntispyware Pro and
> Malwarebytes. Malwarebytes found one infected file and remove it but
> it wasn't related with the Google problem.
>
> Any idea.
>
> This time, Google is NOT my friend.
>
> TIA


Thanks to all.

I didn't have much time to work on the problem this weekend. I tried the
Kaspersky boot CD, the scan took about 30 hours (4 hard drives), it found
some stuff, but I must have missed something because when I restarted the
Google problem was still there.

Finally this morning I restored a 100 days old Ghost system image, re-
updated everything that needed it, installed Firefox and T-Bird and all
seems to work, even the videos in FF, where it all began.

I'll see how it goes from here.
 
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