Google Redirect Virus

For several weeks, a strange behavior had been afflicting my computer: clicking on any Google link would redirect me to an unrelated web page, usually a search engine. Really annoying. However, I discovered that clicking on the 'cached' link would open the cached version, then I could click to the 'live' web page... still annoying, but at least I could get where I wanted to go.

Curiously, as often as I ran Kaspersky, my ant-virus software, and Spybot, my spyware scrubber, nothing was found or fixed. In the meantime, I discovered this was a common infection, as I perused geeky message boards online searching for a cure. A couple that I tried worked until they didn't.

Well... the good news is I did find one that appears to be 'permanent'- until the virus comes back. So, in case you have it, or will, here's information for you-- and go to the page for the fix.

The "Google Redirect Virus" is a computer infection which basically redirects all your Google searches to random websites. This virus is highly infectious and unfortunately, most of the leading antivirus & antispyware programs out there are not able to remove it. If your Google results are being redirected to random advertising websites, you should try and use this tutorial to fix the problem for good.

The Google Redirect virus is basically a browser hijack which latches onto your Internet browsers and changes your Google search results to redirect them to random advertising websites. This means that if you're getting these redirects, your computer will likely have the redirect virus. The problem is that because this virus latches onto specific files inside the various Internet browsers, hardly any antivirus tools are able to actually identify the problem at all.

Most antivirus tools work by scanning your PC for random programs or files which are not part of your system and/or are causing damage. The problem with the Google Redirect Virus in particular is that this virus just changes some of the files that browsers normally have, making it almost invisible to many of the leading antivirus programs. This is a big problem and is cured by doing the following:

The first thing you need to do is to use a free antivirus tool called "ComboFix". This is an antivirus tool that allows you to add various commands to it to remove specific problems. You can use this tool with a special instructions script to remove the various problems that cause the Google Redirect Virus. You can get both this tool and the script for it from our website.

The "ComboFix" is free and it works. However... the recommended registry cleaner to use after you run ComboFix is NOT free, which you're not told until it finds a gazillion registry errors and prompts you to register the software if you want to run it.

So... that's the catch. I didn't go for it, and am learning to love the 1, 500+ registry errors it detected. Nothing in this world is perfect, right? You'll find perfection in the Afterlife- maybe.

So, if you catch this or know someone who has, now you know what to do.