| Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | danielroofer | 6/23/10 5:36 PM | It seems that so many people are having problems understanding how these strange redirects work and what causes them that a quick write up was was needed. I hope this explains things.... Q) I am getting redirected after doing a search, it happens al |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | danielroofer | 6/23/10 5:42 PM | Feel free to discuss your issue with other folks here please remember that this is a web search forum and not a malware forum. The regulars here cannot offer 1-1 support for virus/malware removal. |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | Thomas P. | 6/23/10 7:27 PM | In general: If you see suspicious pop-ups, unwanted toolbars, redirects, strange Google search results then see also: http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/topic.py?topic=13930 |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | tigger8473 | 6/24/10 2:04 PM | Try Hitman Pro 3.5.6. It is currently the only AV that is capable of detecting all variants of the Rootkit responsible for causing unexplainable redirects: http://www.surfright.nl/downloads/ |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | wwwallyh | 6/24/10 3:40 PM | If you guess the number I'm thinking and post it backwards in a foreign language I will not offer 1 on 1 support either |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | guin.white | 7/18/10 12:23 PM | I'm using Firefox 3.6.6, and I've tried just about every malware removal tool / antivirus app, and I'm still getting the google web search redirect thing. For me, it's different every time I click. Sometimes redirects to http://mysearchcorp.com, then to w |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | danielroofer | 7/19/10 12:50 AM | @guin.white FWIW - mysearchcorp [dot] com and web-search-api [dot] com are both owned by the same company: http://www.whois.net/whois/web-search-api.com.com http://www.whois.net/whois/mysearchcorp.com.com So many different types of re direct out |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | bigmouthblog | 7/22/10 3:37 PM | If you're using firefox, check if there are any extensions you don't recognize. I was having a redirect problem that no AV scanner could detect. I finally realized that an extension that they were being caused by an extension I didn't recall instal |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | vinhkhoa | 7/23/10 12:32 AM | Thanks bigmouthblog for pointing out that firefox addon could be another place for malware to attack. And in fact it happens to me. I just checked and found out that my firefox has an addon that I'm not aware of called "Firefox Security 2.0" with the |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | Aouie | 7/23/10 2:44 PM | Several programs, including Malwarebytes and Avast, didn't fix my issue. Combofix [ http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/combofix/how-to-use-combofix ] appears to have fixed the issue. I was getting redirected to Web sites that appeared related to the se |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | tech012345 | 8/26/10 11:10 AM | can it affect my nintendo consoles? |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | ffinybryn | 8/30/10 12:40 PM | Q) So this is a Google only thing? A) Yes Q) What are you going to do about it? A) Absolutely nothing. That's your problem. Q) A quick Google search throws up hundreds, if not thousands of similar (if not better) search engines, I suppose I |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | vermafam | 9/2/10 11:23 PM | When I search on Google, I get the search result page and before I can decide which one to click I get redirected to http://www.google.com/webhp?ech=1&psi=IYqATODwFY-2ngfg-rj5AQ12834930751481&emsg=NCSR&ei=SIyATOKCAcXhnAfIgKXxDg Which apparently look |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | Jack24 | 9/8/10 4:06 AM | When i search not only does it redirect me to many diiferent search engines. but also to loads of retail outlets which are very unrelated to my search. for e.g. i was looking for a laptop and i clicked on currys then was redirected to an american clo |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | mkoch | 9/14/10 12:01 PM | I have never had problems with this PC. I switched from Brighthouse to Verizon FIOS and learned a lesson - NEVER switch from one Virus protection to another and leave your ethernet cable plugged in. Download the new Virus scan unplug the ethernet cor |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | Mighty_au | 9/15/10 8:57 PM | I have the same problem with Firefox browser that random Google search results was redirected to http://mysearchcorp.com and then forwarded to a page on http://stream-search.net just few days ago. I've tried all anti-virue/anti-malware tool that claims to be able |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | 899bubble | 10/2/10 5:41 PM | http://ask.com yahoo msn are all good search sites |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | Efran | 10/10/10 11:29 PM | First of all I love Google search engine,but I've been encountering a hell of a lot of redirecting to off the wall sites and encountering adware and spyware problems due to to this and language changing and this is on my desktop. I'm not traveling an |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | Alan MacDonald | 10/11/10 6:25 AM | I've noticed just now (10/10/10) that Google searches (particularly for terms that I have used, such as "empire-warfare" related to class-warfare) are bringing me to a site called Scour. I'm apprehensive, particularly in this time of national securi |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | Alan MacDonald | 10/11/10 6:39 AM | I just reviewed Mighty_au and Efran above, and think that this is symptomatic of what I experienced --- including being attacked by a "Trojan.fake AV .... gen". I wonder whether, as Mighty_au suggests that "random Google searches" are precipitating |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | eafan | 10/23/10 4:19 PM | I'm also being sent to sites like Scour. Scour says something like 'a search engine that combines results from Yahoo, Google,etc.' It's only happened since I used Google's new search features. The one where it brings up websites automatically. |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | comeon | 10/27/10 12:37 PM | All I know is removing this thing has taken days and many different virus programs. |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | Cauthon75 | 10/31/10 6:06 AM | I appreciate all the help; I wondered if I might be the only one with this problem, and whether (see below) it was specifically a political dirty trick; will try some of the suggested fixes and see if can nuke the bug: This morning I was reading my |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | mkoch | 11/2/10 9:03 AM | My Post received several answers. It was a MBR (Master Boot Record) virus. Even after doing a factory restor the little bugger still showed up since I didn't do a reformat. But then along came the new version of HitMan Pro - thank you it found and fi |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | RMASAT | 11/11/10 11:06 AM | I have the same problem, fresh installed computers, W7, Xp Home, etc, click on any google link it pop ups a google analytics window and forwards me to an search engine. What the hell is going on? Any advice? Thx folks! |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | tech012345 | 11/14/10 6:22 AM | I tried MalwareBytes and HitmanPro35.exe but they don't find ANYTHING. |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | seattlesoft | 11/14/10 2:30 PM | My advice- I would recommend taking note of the URLs that this suspected malware forwards you to. The more often that people report suspicious websites and harmful malware, the more there will be public awareness of dangerous and harmful sites. Th |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | matawan | 11/15/10 6:55 AM | I also get the redirected links BUT ONLY from my iGoogle home page. When I use "Classic Google" everything works fine. I have 5 add-ons on my iGoogle page. I'm going to try to delete them, one at a time to see if one of them is the culprit. |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | matawan | 11/15/10 7:24 AM | I just deleted a couple of "gadgets", from my iGoogle home page and found the culprit that was causing my problem- the NY Times. I deleted it and now all works fine. Perhaps others may find other gadgets that cause the problem. Many hackers destroy o |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | d4v1dp4ng | 11/19/10 10:54 AM | I think google is a stupid search engine. When I search something using google, it displays a lot of information but many of them are tricky, simply redirect me to another search engine website. And when I click one of them, will result information t |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | Bri123 | 11/21/10 8:35 AM | Google is misdirecting my searches. I presume what you call Malware has infected my computer. How do I rectify this? I am almost completely computer illerate. Is it even worth my trying? Samaratans, please use only plain English. |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | Rose13 | 12/8/10 11:26 AM | I "google" all the time and I've never had an issue with redirecting (as in, it's never happened to me.) have you guys checked what your looking up? |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | rizmomin | 12/23/10 8:10 PM | I was having same issue where any time i do a search on google, it would direct to wrong site.I found out that this was not google's problem.Seems to me that there was malware attack on IE ( Internet Explorer).I disabled IE and installed Google Chrom |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | nagarjuna lingala | 12/29/10 6:41 AM | compulasorily it is the problem with kind of malwares or viruses , so it is better to not to use any kind of toolbars , simply uninstall them if u already installed, i saw this problem in one of my friends computer , and also i know something about |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | ckellett3 | 12/31/10 5:54 AM | I was directed to bing. I fixed it by right clicking in the search box and choosing google as default search. I don't know how it got that way. it wasn't me. BING sux!! |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | 650038haig | 1/2/11 2:47 PM | The Google Redirect virus is a particularly nasty piece of malware and one which is difficult to remove successfully. If you are still having problems with the virus, then this walkthrough will detail how to hopefully remove the virus once and for al |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | msgudowski | 1/11/11 8:24 AM | google is fucking retarded... for the money they make you would think they could make a fucking site worth a fuck |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | crispy 96 | 1/15/11 12:29 AM | What i am finding not reading all the posts is that i am not on the internet i am on intranet some companies private internet that will not allow me to get any usefull info on anything its like you are targeted by some a holes and there is nothing yo |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | crispy 96 | 1/15/11 12:30 AM | The real jem is that i cannot get any answers from anyone because i am an undesirable. |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | crispy 96 | 1/15/11 12:33 AM | My email is angeli...@live.com good luck trying to get in touch with me 2507673101 dan kennedy Peachland B.C. see if you can actually find me. |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | dor123 | 1/22/11 3:18 AM | Is this thread related to a problem i have often in Google, that when i click the "Google Search" button, its behaves like i clicked the "I"m Feeling Lucky" button, redirecting me to the first result without my desire? |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | calebtheredwood | 1/25/11 7:19 AM | Make sure you're looking at the address in the URL bar. Make sure it actually says Google.com or where ever you intended to be. |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | Hotellasuite | 1/31/11 2:10 AM | could you see this post and trying to answer to this one my website's Home Page shows other website - Webmaster Central Help |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | snoopy123 | 2/4/11 7:05 PM | I know for a fact and you can see it happen yourself. After many many attempts to stop the redirects to include reformat, I found that when it happens, on the bottom left of the browser when you use GOOGLE as the search engine, it goes to a server 7a |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | whenryelwell | 2/24/11 1:57 PM | My experience is inline with many others on this thread. When I click a hit from a Google search, I am redirected to another random search browser or company site (absolutely not what I clicked). There are often pop-ups that will come up behind my m |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | whenryelwell | 2/25/11 7:19 AM | In further research, I found the following thread helpful: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/sites/thread?tid=1d66077705459abe&hl=en It seems to come closer to what the issue looks like, at least for me, and there appears to be more success wit |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | Musatov | 3/6/11 8:42 AM | 209.190.24.12 |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | DeejaySen | 3/6/11 5:07 PM | hey dude that just happened to me about like an hr ago.. I fixed it tho'..Solution; Download Ccleaner. Install it, and run it, clean everything you can with it...Then go back to google chrome or w.e you use..enter www.google.comAnd it should work :]W |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | IE8 | 3/15/11 7:30 AM | Dear Google software engineers: (I´m gonna take a deep breath to speak properly and without insulting you IDIOTS who think you know better and end up fucking up my day, because I start looking for something and you keep redirecting me to google BRAZI |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | dana gillespie | 4/3/11 7:31 PM | Don't blame it on viruses or malware, google is constantly experimenting and they're trying to run faster than their software will let them. they have figured it takes a person approximately 30 Milliseconds to read a word and 300 Milliseconds for a f |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | Hidroterm | 4/16/11 10:43 AM | I think you are not entering in the real google. I had a virus that show a page like google, but the links pointed somewhere else. |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | charlesmoss42 | 5/25/11 7:27 PM | I don't have the redirect problem until I try to click on one of the sites listed after I do a search. Usually I get a list of commercial links for something similar but not the site, like tonight the search for memorial day concert. I think i brie |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | hellgate1187 | 6/4/11 6:04 PM | BETTER QUESTION - Why do google nerds continue to defend google and insist everyone has malware? Google is a cesspool.......all the crap from people's asses flows into google. Then google processes the crap with their "Google Analytics".......this is |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | kornus | 6/11/11 7:51 PM | g |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | Element25 | 6/22/11 9:00 AM | Can the redirect virus do any harm to your computer like steal information or money or anything? i keep getting redirecting to sites like this: http://www.find-quick-results.com/ i really need help |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | asadsite | 6/23/11 5:53 AM | google has become very cumbersome for me to use with the frequent changes to how it searches and having to spend hours keeping up to date every time they think they're smarter than the average bear can anyone recommend a smaller more user friendly s |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | dana gillespie | 6/30/11 2:54 AM | I am a computer technician and run a small business. I have had to either put in a new hard drive in a lot of computers. When a computer 'black screens' all functions stop! No mouse no keyboard no screen. The tech has to go in and clear the viruses, |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | nicobruno | 8/4/11 3:21 PM | I found out that it was an extension in firefox that had been installed without my knowledge. The extension that had magically appeared was "XUL cache" and after disabling and removing it, I was good to go! I, too, ran multiple scans with symantec, |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | guin.white | 8/14/11 11:33 AM | Switched to Opera. So far, so good. Except that some pages malfunction, so I still have to use Firefox occasionally. There really is no perfect browser or search engine. Huh. |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | tigert911 | 9/16/11 9:34 PM | ok so you guys are doing quite a lot of work for this trojan. Me and my dad figured out how to get rid of it without doing all that. That is doing a system restore like 10 days back after the search engine went back to normal and no more threats were |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | adb101 | 10/10/11 3:05 PM | if you click catched under the website insted of just clicking the web link than you will be directed to the website you desire! |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | adb101 | 10/10/11 3:08 PM | @Tigert911 how do you do a system restore? |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | leonglei | 10/19/11 2:20 PM | http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic419352.html and the Combofix helped me fixed the problem Good luck |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | xinga | 10/29/11 5:32 AM | i tried another way and it works!! : if you use google chrome to remove it, it is really easy.goto option on your google chrome, then click the BASICS. Look for "search"and change the "search" into "google searh" if you want to. |
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| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | ebbixx | 11/30/11 6:22 AM | Is there any way to effectively report instances where a particular search appears to have been highjacked? Norton tells me that I'm getting "Web Attack: Exploit Kit Variant 11" from some Polish domain unrelated to the search: https://www.google.com/ |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | nick keane | 12/12/11 10:14 AM | if using crome go to settings, click on options and where it says HOMEPAGE change to http://www.google.com as this might have been chaned by virus, also change the new tab settings, prob similar to other programs such as firefox, just find settings. if this |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | jl5608 | 12/13/11 1:11 PM | If you are running Windows check the host file located in c:\windows\systems32\drivers\etc\hosts. Open the file with notepad. The file should only look like the below example. If there are other entries with an IP address and google, google is bei |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | CauZion | 12/16/11 11:43 AM | Have you from google ever thought a user may NOT want to be redirected despite his IP address ??? I want to use http://google.com no matter if I'm in India, Brazil, Argentina or any other country. I just don't want to be redirected. I DON'T WANT !!! Any sol |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | Anup Raman | 12/16/11 1:21 PM | Try superantispyware,hitman pro. Both are free and have high rate of success. Other suggestions are malwarebytes, hijack this. Just in case if these tools failed, try the steps mentioned in http://atechjourney.com/google-redirect-virus-remove-manual |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | ingenioustech | 1/3/12 11:11 PM | Try any of these malware softwares: http://kaspersky-tdsskiller.en.softonic.com/ http://www.combofix.org/download.php http://www.superantispyware.com/ http://www.malwarebytes.org/. TDSSKiller works in most of the cases. However, for a full de |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | Leo Ferdinand | 1/18/12 9:22 AM | Yeah I had the same problem as most of you do but I got this site where I got my process..... of stoping this annoying redirects from google to some random sites but now they have made some sort of sign up which takes 2 mins so not an issue if u are |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | Leo Ferdinand | 1/18/12 9:24 AM | Yeah I had the same problem as most of you do but I got this site where I got my process..... of stoping this annoying redirects from google to some random sites but now they have made some sort of sign up which takes 2 mins so not an issue if u are |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | randybhere | 1/24/12 5:52 PM | It seems everytime I use google chrome i get an alternate sites or redirects as well. It does not happen when I use internet explorer. Unfortunately if this continues i will stop using chrome and go back to IE. It seems to happen only with chrome. |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | bluequoll | 1/26/12 7:55 PM | Refer to this thread for further information: Google Chrome redirecting Google Search to wrong country. |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | whalawhalabingbang | 2/8/12 4:50 PM | okiedokie |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | EvergreenBob | 2/24/12 1:42 PM | Try my (just found) solution in my post below "Redirect Virus" and let me know if it also works for you ... this is a Microsoft Product.... and safe to run |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | GeorgeButel | 2/25/12 10:41 AM | Next time you post actual links to sites that you know are redirects caused by malware, I suggest that you break the link by adding text in the middle of the link [such as this: [not part of the link]] in order to keep people from clicking on them an |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | GeorgeButel | 2/25/12 10:52 AM | Anytime you reinstall your OS or remove your resident antimalware program, disconnect from the internet. Save your new antimalware program(s) on an external hard drive (or put it on a data cd) and install it/them before reconnecting--OR--if you don't |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | JoshTodd | 4/6/12 3:51 AM | Worked like a charm! here is the guide: http://www.reallyhowto.com/24-minutes-google-redirect-virus-removal/ |
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| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | Mathiat2 | 4/18/12 12:13 AM | Malware? Really? Why is it that whenever something on a computer goes wrong people automatically assume it has nothing to do with a software misconfiguration or developer-intended user-unintended default? |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | DISQC | 4/21/12 10:26 PM | Hi, I do not have any Malware. I only have a problem with 1 word which is "Disqc". Google auto-"correct" it to "Diseqc" since DiSEqC is a big company or something... The thing is, DISQC is the name of my website. Is there something that I can do so t |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | MikeCip84 | 4/23/12 9:53 AM | I think I'm done with both Firefox and Google...at least for now. Geez, back to Chrome. You do realize Chrome is powered by Google right? |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | Ozicik | 4/28/12 8:12 AM | There's a program made for this problem you might want to try. Here it is. |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | comgeek8888 | 4/28/12 10:52 PM | About this virus :Keep Getting redirected to other websites when searching Google? We Help you how to remove the Google Redirect virus in easy step by step instructions, a manual guide. Google redirect Virus is a virus being discussed too much over I |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | Evian89 | 5/9/12 10:26 PM | FIX: for CHROME: For me this virus only redirected me while using google chrome. I fixed the problem by going into Settings - Extensions and un-checking the enable box on the default extension. Please note that removing it just brings it back the nex |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | sangfroidblah | 5/10/12 1:06 AM | Thanks, this seems to work for me too. |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | JimWalton | 5/11/12 8:35 PM | Daniel obviously lives and surfs from the US. So, he doesn't have a problem. Just for the record, Daniel, I've been using the computer since the early 70s, I'm a retired computer engineer, I've taught computer programming, I was a computer security e |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | comgeek8888 | 5/12/12 1:55 AM | this happens when your computer is infected with a browser hijacker,, a trojan known as TDSS brings browser hijackers in infected PCS, you can fix google redirect virus problem either manually or by using a legitimate anti-malware tool http://www.tec |
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| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | ForesTree | 5/16/12 12:21 AM | Similar problem, but only when using latest release of Firefox -- does not happen with IE or Chrome... Just sayin'... |
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| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | ForesTree | 5/16/12 12:33 AM | Just disabled FastestFox in the Add Ons (Select Toolbar, then Add-Ons, Extensions, disable Fastest Fox) -- seems to work... |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | kierfan1 | 5/22/12 4:30 PM | just use sytem restore. . believe it or not it works. trust me. . .especially if it's your last hope. thank you Jehovah. ;-) |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | TroyMc | 6/1/12 6:22 AM | Did you try to use another browser besides the one forwarding you to other sites? I had similar issue with one browser the other two were working ok. I usually use 3 browsers IE, Chrome, FF. You have to clean the browser infected by that plug in. Tr |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | lattice000 | 6/25/12 9:05 AM | I might found the problem!1.I open the hidden file and check the web root in the serverSome malware injected inside my web server. 2.I remove all the .asa files 3.restart the IIS server It seems ok now!I hope this is the solution. |
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| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | reallytrickydicky | 9/27/12 3:35 AM | You can download a very good free disinfectant called TDSSKILLER from Kaspersky Labs, won't necessarily fix the infection, but will identify what is going on. Often enough information is gleaned that will allow you to start in safe mode and edit the |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | funfanatic | 9/29/12 9:20 AM | Good. Thanks! |
| Re: Google Redirects Me to Some Other Search Engine - Help! | somuchluv | 11/2/12 12:54 PM | I didn't want to read through all the answers so I don't know if anyone has mentioned this, but Malware isn't always the problem... A lot of people don't know that they have Bing set as their default or that the http://ask.com toolbar is installed. That sho |