Browser redirects to go.google/go.yahoo/go.msn Symptoms: Slow internet search, text fonts in Google are bigger than normal, redirected to go.google/go.yahoo/go.msn and then on to advertisements after clicking on links on Google page, unable to download any anti-spyware downloads, unable to download Microsoft’s malware program (says page is unavailable), unable to go to many trouble-shooting help forums and download pages (says pages are unavailable or that there is no internet connection), Malwarebytes and other malware programs will not run (they freeze up during the install)
After fighting with this for 2 days, I finally found the following solution posted (worked on 11/16/08): Go to www.freedrweb.com/cureit/ for free (you will have to do this on another computer, because the malware will not let you do it on the infected computer), download the program on a jump drive, and then run on the infected computer. Then, after running cureit, you should be able to download and run Malwarebytes to get rid of the remaining residue. It worked for me, my computer is back to normal (after cureit deleted a tdssxxom file in Windows/System32/drivers)!!! On Oct 8, 7:27 am, PsychoticAdvisor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message through the Google Groups "stopbadware" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stopbadware?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
