up vote 1 down vote favorite
share [g+] share [fb]

When I try to search for something using any search engine(google, yahoo, etc..) it brings me back the results, but when I try to click on any of the links that were brought back somehow I get redirected to some other page(which does change). Then I have to go back and try clicking on the link again to actually go to the correct page. I don't know why it does this but it does. How can I get rid of this problem? Tried deleting browser history already but doesn't change anything.

link|improve this question
I have this same exact problem. I use FF with a few plugins. – Joe Philllips Jul 24 '09 at 3:21
feedback

migrated from serverfault.com Jul 18 '09 at 8:14

This question came from our site for system administrators and desktop support professionals.

3 Answers

up vote 2 down vote

It sounds like you may have got ffsearcher... a trojan. This article at secureworks describes the attack, check to see if that is what your seeing.

link|improve this answer
thats sounds exactly like it, which is why its not picked up by my virus scanner, how can I get rid of it? – John Jul 18 '09 at 0:13
Unfortunately, the only way to be sure you are rid of it is to wipe and reinstall. There isn't a reliable way to get rid of it yet. See serverfault.com/questions/41762/… on serverfault for the answers we came up with there. – RascalKing Jul 20 '09 at 20:46
feedback
up vote 1 down vote

Sounds like a DNS hijack sort of spyware. A friend of mine had this and Spybot S&D took care of it no problems. Just make sure if you are running Vista or greater than it had administrative access to modify or remove the files.

You may also want to check your hosts file for suspicious entries, it is located at:

C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc
link|improve this answer
feedback
up vote 0 down vote

Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware took care of it for me, I think.

link|improve this answer
feedback

Your Answer

 
or
required, but never shown
discard