Redirect in Google

[ksher]

After I finish the search on goolge and click on the selected site, I am redirected to other site. How can I stop it? Why does it happen?

 

[gannet]

Click the Settings link at the top right of the google search page... under there is an option to 'Open search results in a new browser window' check that and it should be ok.

Alternatively right click the result link and select open in new window/tab...

 

[ksher]

Thanks. I did not change any settings, but google just redirected me to other places very recently.

 

[srhutch]

Think you may have caught something nasty, my colleague has just bought her home PC in for me to sort out with the same issue, keeps opening random sited when you click on a google search result.

 

[Andy]

yeah ive had this today too, now you've worried me that it's being talked about.

Sh*te.

Got Current AV and Ad-Aware and can't see any rogue processes, & I only built this PC from scratch yesterday.

 

[ksher]

I run McAfee full scan but found nothing. I also switch to high pop-up blocker from medium.

 

[sk93]

Try running Malwarebytes' anti malware software.

also, have a looksee here: http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/04/fixing-the-google-redirect-tro.html

 

[ksher]

My desktop is infected!!! 19 objects are infected.

 

[lacroupade]

If you havent got them, the following free tools are really good. But be careful to download them from the right site....

AVG 9.0 - http://free.avg.com/gb-en/download-avg-anti-virus-free-edition (make sure you select the free version).

SpyBot - http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/ Just download the first one in the list, SpyBot Search & Destroy, it will download updates etc when you've installed it.

....and stop lookng at dodgy porn sites for gods sake, we know what you've been doing! LOL

 

[Andy]

Mine's clean so I'm going to assume it was a fluke, read the other threads and the registry looks as clean as it should do for a 24hr old W7 Ultimate build (with AV before it went online).

Did have a dodgy torrent which was clearly malicious, but that got caught.

 

[lacroupade]

Depends what you checked it with Andy......You don't get misdirects like that without there being an infection/trojan of some kind. Try those two tools above, they are highly recomended.

And its very unusual for a torrent to be infected - the whole point is that bitorrent downloads small portions of the target file from multiple sources, so there would have to be a widely distributed infected file being hosted without detection on multiple PCs, which is unlikely......peer to peer (like the dreaded Limewire) downloads a single file from a single source, which is why it tends to attract viruses like flies - its a piece of cake to just host an infected file sor every sucker to download.
The torrent itself is just a 'pointer' file and unlikely to be infected unless its a renamed .exe file.....

And I have to assume we are talking legal torrents here The other kind are non-PC here I'm afraid, which is fair enough.

 

[sk93]

if you like, run the HijackThis tool and post the log here.
I've had quite a bit of experience working through those logs

 

[Andy]

don't worry, I know I'm sorted, but thanks.

& Yes..I'm talking about a maliciously released torrent to include trojans, released as AVs, Nero, AdAware type software. Which is unfortunately incredibly common, not rare. :thumbsdown:

 

[lacroupade]

& Yes..I'm talking about a maliciously released torrent to include trojans, released as AVs, Nero, AdAware type software. Which is unfortunately incredibly common, not rare. :thumbsdown:

...which is why you wait a while and let other people download for a while before climbing aboard, because the whole point of the technology, as I'm sure you know, is that it downloads small elements of the file from multiple sources, and the fact that so many people will therefore have had the full file means there is a very high chance of someone detecting an issue and posting abut it. I've never seen an infected torrent and I've been using the technology fiercely since it very first came out - in fact I get a 'fair usage' missive from my allegedly 'unlimited' ISP nearly every month. This honestly isn't meant to be rude, but the mere fact that you needed to ask the original question tells me that you aren't as aware as you could be about the problems out there, one of which is the eternal 'always know your sources'. Please don't be offended; just trying to help.

 

[Andy]

don't worry, I know I'm sorted, but thanks.

This honestly isn't meant to be rude, but the mere fact that you needed to ask the original question tells me that you aren't as aware as you could be about the problems out there,

did i ask a question? 8) oke:

i discovered straight after posting the cause of mine was a policy fraud in firefox:

greprefs\security-prefs.js - pref("security.ssl3.rsa_seed_sha", true);

believe it's a new strain. didn't slow an i7 newbuild down much tho