I had to battle it out again with yet another spyware infected laptop (my friend's laptop, not mine). This nasty spyware targeted a user's search results. Not just Google but any search engine results. It seemed to only affect IE browsers.
This spyware was a real sneaky one. Basically if you performed a web search (ie google, yahoo) you would be presented with a valid list of search results. But if you click on any of the search results, you would be redirected to a bad site. Naughty, I know. At first, I thought that someone had hacked into the router and changed the DNS settings that wasnt the case.
I was able to fix the issue using HijackThis. So now that makes it...Roger 8 Spyware 0.
This spyware was a real sneaky one. Basically if you performed a web search (ie google, yahoo) you would be presented with a valid list of search results. But if you click on any of the search results, you would be redirected to a bad site. Naughty, I know. At first, I thought that someone had hacked into the router and changed the DNS settings that wasnt the case.
I was able to fix the issue using HijackThis. So now that makes it...Roger 8 Spyware 0.
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