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Ninjam wrote on 2010-06-20 05:05
Just starting today, i noticed my searches were being redirected to shop comparison sites.
An example, i just searched good for a episode of an anime i was watching, i see a hulu link, click it, and am redirected to a shopping comparison search.
I ran a scan with avg but came up with nothing, and i noticed i still havent reinstalled spybot search and destroy so i started that now, but i believe its some kind of adware. Has this been happening to anyone else lately?
I think im going to clear my cookies, or go through and delete any i dont know where they came from cause this is getting annoying. I cant search for ANYTHING without being redirected to stupid sites that had nothing to do with the original site i clicked on.
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kotarou3 wrote on 2010-06-20 06:19
why would adware redirect you to a shopping comparison site though?
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Osayidan wrote on 2010-06-20 12:13
is this when you go to google.com and type in your search?
If so try searching from here instead of typing in the url and tell me if it works
Google
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Ninjam wrote on 2010-06-21 08:42
Well, uh actually it turned out to be a rootkit had taken over my computer, no clue how it got past my antivirus and my nightly scans. I even ran detailed scans the moment i noticed my searches were being redirected. Had to run combofix to get rid of it and im still wiping up the remaining virus's and fixing the huge damage it caused, including somehow having my copy of windows no longer genuine.
Actually, it was after i ran a search in google, i would click on the link to go to the site i wanted to go to, and it would redirect me to some random sites or search engines i never heard of.