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Help! A Google Virus?!

Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
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Everytime I click on a search result in Google it comes up with a Spyware ad thingy! And now it's got a scary internet explorer page up telling me either to press okay or cancel. Either way it looks like/pretends to be scanning my system. But I can't close it with the little red x! What is happening?!? :(

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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    sounds like it could be a browser hijack...

    Have you done the usual virus / malware scans?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    ShyBoy wrote: »
    sounds like it could be a browser hijack...

    Have you done the usual virus / malware scans?

    I don't know how :( I don't think I have anything that does that...

    That said, my computer had some pop up thing that came up to prevent files being downloaded.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Do you have internet security? If you do then you will need to do a scan. I had this the other week too by the way but you need to scan your pc.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    It seemed to go away on its own. So I have no idea what it was.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Did you get involved with big smilies / emoticons, Incredimail, registry cleaners, aquarium screensaver, xxx screensaver, Win Antivirus 2009? Those are typical examples of spyware take-overs.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Monserrat wrote: »
    Did you get involved with big smilies / emoticons, Incredimail, registry cleaners, aquarium screensaver, xxx screensaver, Win Antivirus 2009? Those are typical examples of spyware take-overs.

    Nope. Definitely not. I'm very careful at what I click online cause of those idiots.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Run the scan here as a starting point - microsoft maintain it online so it stays pretty much up to the minute
    http://onecare.live.com/site/en-us/default.htm?s_cid=sah/?s_cid=sah
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Jim V wrote: »
    Run the scan here as a starting point - microsoft maintain it online so it stays pretty much up to the minute
    http://onecare.live.com/site/en-us/default.htm?s_cid=sah/?s_cid=sah

    Jim, you're brilliant!
    Virus and spyware scan: 12 items detected, 2 issues found.
    Registry cleaner scan: 473 invalid items found.

    Ooops! :rolleyes:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Problem is.. the Google thing still happens. In both IE and Firefox and on all search engines :'( What's going on??
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