Re: OT: Some kind of google search virus.

2011-01-25 Thread keith smith
Thanks! Keith Smith --- On Tue, 1/25/11, Technomage Hawke wrote: From: Technomage Hawke Subject: Re: OT: Some kind of google search virus. To: "Main PLUG discussion list" Date: Tuesday, January 25, 2011, 3:39 PM manually delete your browser cache director

Re: OT: Some kind of google search virus.

2011-01-25 Thread JD Austin
CCleaner will clear out caches/etc On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 15:39, Technomage Hawke wrote: > manually delete your browser cache directories. its a file being executed > whenever your browse. > > also, get aver from www.free-av.com. that is a good package and will spot > some bugs for you. also get

Re: OT: Some kind of google search virus.

2011-01-25 Thread Technomage Hawke
manually delete your browser cache directories. its a file being executed whenever your browse. also, get aver from www.free-av.com. that is a good package and will spot some bugs for you. also get cleaner and malwarebytes antimalware. I call this a triple buffer against many problems. -Eric

Re: OT: Some kind of google search virus.

2011-01-25 Thread JD Austin
Sorry about the duplicate messages; I got a message back from googles MTA that the message had been rejected! Of course I tried it again twice... and all of them went through. JD On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 12:49, JD Austin wrote: > Download the iso image below and burn it to a disk. > Boot from it a

Re: OT: Some kind of google search virus.

2011-01-25 Thread Andrew Harris
Check your proxy settings (through Internet Options) and installed BHOs if you're using IE. Also, you still have a virus. Try MBAM. On Jan 25, 2011, at 12:29 PM, keith smith wrote: > > Hi, > > I went though an evening of struggling with viruses that took over two > computers. I've removed e

Re: OT: Some kind of google search virus.

2011-01-25 Thread keith smith
some serious thought.  Keith Smith --- On Tue, 1/25/11, Thomas Gail Haws wrote: From: Thomas Gail Haws Subject: Re: OT: Some kind of google search virus. To: "Main PLUG discussion list" Date: Tuesday, January 25, 2011, 12:33 PM It reminds me of a problem that I was a

Re: OT: Some kind of google search virus.

2011-01-25 Thread JD Austin
Download the iso image below and burn it to a disk. Boot from it and run scans your from it (super antispyware/kaspersky): http://www.twingeckos.com/TGBootCD.iso When you run kaspersky change the path to 'install it' to c:\ instead of the path it chooses on the ramdisk. When it is done then boot n

Re: OT: Some kind of google search virus.

2011-01-25 Thread Thomas Gail Haws
It reminds me of a problem that I was able to solve using the help of bleepingcomputer.com and malwarebytes.org forums. I don't remember the name of the issue, but I do remember the search redirection. Basically, the fix involved the rkill, gmer, and mbam tools at the least. If you search from a

OT: Some kind of google search virus.

2011-01-25 Thread keith smith
Hi, I went though an evening of struggling with viruses that took over two computers.  I've removed everything and am back to normal almost. I have some kind of virus I am not able to identify and have no idea how to search for a fix. What is happening, is on occasion, when searching goog