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Lord Herbert Gold Member Offline Posts: 34441 Gender:	A Browser Redirect Virus has landed in my PC. Oct 28^th, 2017 at 9:33pm Damn nuisance. link
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Super Nova Gold Member Offline Posts: 3039 Everywhere Gender:	Re: A Browser Redirect Virus has landed in my PC. Reply #1 - Oct 28^th, 2017 at 10:42pm Lord Herbert wrote on Oct 28^th, 2017 at 9:33pm: Damn nuisance. link Herb, how did you notice this? Did your antivirus software find it or....
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freediver Gold Member Offline www.ozpolitic.com Posts: 47362 At my desk.	Re: A Browser Redirect Virus has landed in my PC. Reply #2 - Oct 29^th, 2017 at 9:01am Is that the Bing one?
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Marla Gold Member Offline I really hate you Posts: 12821 Colorado Gender:	Re: A Browser Redirect Virus has landed in my PC. Reply #3 - Oct 29^th, 2017 at 1:20pm Lord Herbert wrote on Oct 28^th, 2017 at 9:33pm: Damn nuisance. link Lay off the god damn porn sites, Herb. Geesh you would think the nurses at your home would have such sites blocked by now. If you're running Windows, I'd say do a clean re-install and keep up with your Micro$oft security updates.
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Lord Herbert Gold Member Offline Posts: 34441 Gender:	Re: A Browser Redirect Virus has landed in my PC. Reply #4 - Oct 29^th, 2017 at 9:12pm freediver wrote on Oct 29^th, 2017 at 9:01am: Is that the Bing one? I think so. But! I've solved the problem with 'AdwCleaner' fetched from Bleeping Computers.
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Reply #5 - Oct 29^th, 2017 at 9:17pm

Marla wrote on Oct 29^th, 2017 at 1:20pm:

Lord Herbert wrote on Oct 28^th, 2017 at 9:33pm:

Damn nuisance.

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Lay off the god damn porn sites, Herb. Geesh you would think the nurses at your home would have such sites blocked by now.

If you're running Windows, I'd say do a clean re-install and keep up with your Micro$oft security updates.

A clean/install is a bugger that takes up time and temper - although it's true that I now have my system and files fully backed up to an external hard drive.

The AdwCleaner app has saved my ass on a number of occasions in the past. Brilliant, effective, and free.

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freediver Gold Member Offline www.ozpolitic.com Posts: 47362 At my desk.	Re: A Browser Redirect Virus has landed in my PC. Reply #6 - Oct 29^th, 2017 at 9:59pm I feel your pain. It took me ages to get bing off my computer last time it got infected with it.
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Reply #7 - Oct 30^th, 2017 at 1:10pm

freediver wrote on Oct 29^th, 2017 at 9:59pm:

I feel your pain. It took me ages to get bing off my computer last time it got infected with it.

My pain is not over with yet.

They're BAAAAAAAAAAACK .... Clicking something takes me to ...

'ZAFUL'

'flirt-and-sex.com'

'putrr18.com'

... and a lot more.

The AdwCleaner didn't do the job after all.

fingers crossed

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Marla Gold Member Offline I really hate you Posts: 12821 Colorado Gender:	Re: A Browser Redirect Virus has landed in my PC. Reply #8 - Oct 30^th, 2017 at 1:29pm Told you, clean reinstall. AND STAY AWAY FROM THOSE SITES
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Reply #9 - Oct 30^th, 2017 at 1:41pm

Lord Herbert wrote on Oct 30^th, 2017 at 1:10pm:

freediver wrote on Oct 29^th, 2017 at 9:59pm:

I feel your pain. It took me ages to get bing off my computer last time it got infected with it.

My pain is not over with yet.

They're BAAAAAAAAAAACK .... Clicking something takes me to ...

'ZAFUL'

'flirt-and-sex.com'

'putrr18.com'

... and a lot more.

The AdwCleaner didn't do the job after all.

fingers crossed

At least it wasn't a homo site. Grin

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Reply #10 - Oct 30^th, 2017 at 8:09pm

Super Nova wrote on Oct 28^th, 2017 at 10:42pm:

Lord Herbert wrote on Oct 28^th, 2017 at 9:33pm:

Damn nuisance.

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Herb, how did you notice this?

Did your antivirus software find it or....

I'll be at a news site and click for a closer look at an article, but then I ger redirected to an advertising site.

None of the apps. recommended for getting rid of this browser hijacker has worked.

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Reply #11 - Oct 30^th, 2017 at 8:14pm

Marla wrote on Oct 30^th, 2017 at 1:29pm:

Told you, clean reinstall. AND STAY AWAY FROM THOSE SITES

The ONLY time I've been redirected to advertising sites has been when I'm at the online UK Daily Mail website. No porn involved at all from my side of the keyboard.

But you might be right about a clean/install.

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Bobby. Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 95255 Melbourne Gender:	Re: A Browser Redirect Virus has landed in my PC. Reply #12 - Oct 30^th, 2017 at 9:52pm Lord Herbert wrote on Oct 30^th, 2017 at 8:09pm: None of the apps. recommended for getting rid of this browser hijacker has worked. Keep trying - there must be a way to get rid of it.
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Reply #13 - Oct 31^st, 2017 at 12:10am

Herb, you appear to like play technical so this is what I did when I had this problem. from memory.

- I looked for tools to remove them, none worked
- I looked at installs and found an install of some software was done without me knowing, it must have come with something else. - Uninstall everything from around the time this happened
- I had to then look at startup and remove them from start up
- Even after uninstall there where exes handing around, delete them
- Delete all Browser addins you don't recognize
- Also it was sneaky, it had 2 separate installs each reinstalling each other so I had to do both at th same time
- Clear all cookies
- Reboot

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Marla Gold Member Offline I really hate you Posts: 12821 Colorado Gender:	Re: A Browser Redirect Virus has landed in my PC. Reply #14 - Oct 31^st, 2017 at 2:26pm Herbus the Slurbus more than likely has a Trojan worm that is redirecting him to other nefarious sites. No "free" anti-malware mumbo-jumbo is going to remove it other than a clean reinstall.
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