Clicking search engine links redirect to a different page?
Wednesday, 23rd March 2011
When I do a search and click on a link I get redirected to random sites other than the one I wanted to go to. It doesn’t always happen. But when it does I can click the same link 5 different times and get redirected to 5 different sites. If I copy the link location and paste it in the address bar it goes right to it. I have run NAV scan, Malware Bytes scan, and Super AntiSpyware. All of them come back clean. Any suggestions?
it sounds like you have a browser hijack, try running a program called hijack this, it will list all the add-ons for your browser, including the malicious ones.
oh boy i’ve dealt with that. fun one isn’t it?
Download, install, then update spybot S&D, trojan killer, and Microsoft Security Essentials (make sure you remove NAV). Then go into safe mode and scan with all of them.
Read this article, very useful tips how to fix such problem:
http://deletemalware.blogspot.com/2010/02/remove-google-redirect-virus.html
I hope this helps.
It’s probably the TDL3 rootkit virus/malware.
I fought with this thing for almost a week. It was driving me crazy. Finally found an easy solution. Hitman Pro 3.5 will get rid of it, along with any other malware on your PC. You can download it at http://www.surfright.nl/en/products/ and it is very easy to use.
This seems to be the only product currently capable of cleaning this bug. Tried Norton, McAfee, Malware Bytes, AdAware, MRT, and SuperAnti-Spyware and none of them were able to find the trojan and proxy entries that were causing the issue.
A good description of what this bug is doing and how it is doing it can be found here – http://www.surfright.nl/en/home/press/tdl3-rootkit-still-large-issue-for-anti-virus-programs
Hope this helps, and good luck!