| Clicking on a search result brings me toa blocked site | JerseyCurmudgeon | 8/16/12 10:30 AM | For over a week, when I click on the link to a website listed in Google Search results, this comes up instead: http://googleads.l.doubleeclick.net/url?bs=b14b&url=about:blank. My company firewall, for good reason, blocks these sites. It does not happ |
| Re: Clicking on a search result brings me toa blocked site | yvbull | 8/16/12 5:06 PM | I have had the same problem which also started a week ago or thereabouts. My government firewall blocks the ad also, but I have not been able to remove the virus ven with anti-malware programs...someone help!! |
| Re: Clicking on a search result brings me toa blocked site | Jer L | 8/16/12 8:26 PM | Hey JerseyCurmudgeon and yvbull, Thanks to both of you for posting about this issue. Mind if I ask you for a bit more information? 1) What type of web browser are you using?2) Does this happen using any other web browsers?3) Can you remember download |
| Re: Clicking on a search result brings me toa blocked site | JerseyCurmudgeon | 8/17/12 6:54 AM | I am using IE9, and am restricted from using any other browser on this computer. I haven't downloaded or installed anything on this computer in several weeks. |
| Re: Clicking on a search result brings me toa blocked site | JerseyCurmudgeon | 8/17/12 6:56 AM | I forgot to mention that I have changed my default search engine to Bing until this is resolved. |
| Re: Clicking on a search result brings me toa blocked site | Jer L | 8/17/12 2:27 PM | Hey Jersey, Since you're on a corporate network, the first thing I'd recommend is to chat with your IT department about the issue. If they're unable to resolve it, let me know, there are a few tools available that may do the trick. Do you happen to h |
| Re: Clicking on a search result brings me toa blocked site | ShaunD76 | 8/19/12 8:53 AM | i'm getting the same behavior - tried scanning with malwarebytes, ms security essentials, AVG... nothing came up. I'm getting the spam links on Firefox, IE and Chrome. I'm home at the moment but will try to repro from the office tomorrow. |
| Re: Clicking on a search result brings me toa blocked site | ShaunD76 | 8/21/12 1:57 PM | just an update - tried to repro @ the office, with other computers on my home network, with no sucess. so i'm pretty sure it's something on my computer that isn't detected yet by anti-malware... |
| Re: Clicking on a search result brings me toa blocked site | rtHonNelon | 8/23/12 11:07 AM | Same issue here, ran all the usual suspects which found nothing, just ran http://support.kaspersky.com/faq/?qid=208283363 (tds killer by kaspersky), select change paramaters and select 'detect TDLFS File system', this found and quarantined something |
| Re: Clicking on a search result brings me toa blocked site | ShaunD76 | 8/24/12 8:33 PM | thanks for the tip, but sadly TDSKiller didn't find anything on my system, neither did Norton Power Eraser. There is a thread on Reddit about the redirects, here : http://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/yr6v7/new_google_redirect_virus/ if any |
| Re: Clicking on a search result brings me toa blocked site | Jer L | 9/4/12 12:28 PM | Hey Shaun, Thanks for posting the Reddit link, there's a lot of good info there. As is mentioned in the thread, the redirect issue can sometimes be caused by an unwanted browser extension. I'd recommend disabling any unfamiliar extensions or add-ons |
| Re: Clicking on a search result brings me toa blocked site | JerseyCurmudgeon | 9/7/12 1:45 PM | Jeremy, Thanks for your suggestion and apologies for not acknowledging your earlier reply sooner. We use Symantec EndPoint as our corporate AV tool. I automatically run a full scan each week, and periodically run interim full scans as well. Our AV |
| Re: Clicking on a search result brings me toa blocked site | Jer L | 9/11/12 3:59 PM | Hey Jersey, No worries about the delay -- I've been a bit behind as well. We're always working to make sure our systems are as safe and secure as possible, and we will continue to do so. In the meantime, there are a couple more tools you may want to |
| Re: Clicking on a search result brings me toa blocked site | tacktick | 9/12/12 8:33 AM | Microsoft just posted this blog entry: http://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2012/09/10/msrt-september-12-medfos-hijacking-your-daily-search.aspx http://doubleeclick.net is associated with the malware Win32/Medfos Try use the new MSRT tool to remove the |
| Re: Clicking on a search result brings me toa blocked site | AndersBuus | 9/13/12 4:23 AM | <This message has been deleted.> |
| Re: Clicking on a search result brings me toa blocked site | AndersBuus | 9/13/12 4:31 AM | When making a google search on the name of my company (Company name: inordvativ, located in Denmark), you recieve some results that looks correct. By trying to follow the suggested links, sends you to a site in the .ru domain, that attemps to infect |
| Re: Clicking on a search result brings me toa blocked site | Kaleh | 9/13/12 5:36 AM | @AndersBuus It appears that your site, or the server your site is hosted on, has been hacked. The redirect to the .ru malware site also occurs with Bing and Yahoo. You should consider posting in the Malware and Hacked Sites section of the Google |
| Re: Clicking on a search result brings me toa blocked site | AndersBuus | 9/13/12 5:59 AM | Hi Kaleh Thanks, you are right, I did not test on Bing and Yahoo - my fault.! Sorry for blaming google!!! I will have my hosting provider to look in to it right away! /Anders |
| Re: Clicking on a search result brings me toa blocked site | sli5 | 9/13/12 9:07 AM | I've had this redirect.I ended up changing the DNS Server I was using (my ISP is talktalk) and used googles instead. Thats cleared the problem up. |
| Re: Clicking on a search result brings me toa blocked site | IO.Device | 11/5/12 12:58 AM | Hi - the MSRT fixed this for me - I had that Mozilla Safe Seach extension installed - Doh! thanks for the tip :) |