I'm a noob so please forgive me if I'm posting this in the wrong place. My computer was recently infected with an annoying redirect that mimicked the Google search engine. I practically live in the Google search engine so this was particularly troublesome to me. The page was exactly the same as Google, and even had Google dot com in the URL bar. Their was a slight difference however, and that was that the font size was just a bit bigger. When something was entered into the search window, the page would redirect, (just as Google does) to a list of web sites. (I noticed that the URL bar then read go.google plus a search string of other characters) However when you clicked on one of the pages, the browser would go to a list of lame advertising and/or other so called search engines. Whatever this code was, it also blocked access to most of the major malware detection download sites. (Like Symantec and Lavasoft). I finally did manage to send a link to the download sites to my Gmail account from another computer. Somehow clicking on that link in my Gmail account bypassed the malware and my browser was able to get through. Surprisingly, neither Ad-aware nor Norton 360 corrected the problem. I hate to recommend software, because you never know who the good guys and the bad guys are, but I did find an obscure malware remover called Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware that seems to have corrected the problem, at least for now. I absolutely HATE malicious code, and wish we could hang all these guys in a public square. Thanks for your diligent efforts, StopBadware!
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