So, I got a particularly obnoxious malware program lurking somewhere in my hard drive that is tied to a fucking search engine called "ask". The SOP for this piece of crap is to redirect a web address to the search engine as a search topic; even if I click on the address it has listed or click a link from another page I wind up redirected to the search engine's results.
How do I go about exorcising this insufferable lump of code?
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SpudgeWitty commentsgo next to this blue dot thingyRegistered Userregular
edited October 2010
check your hosts file - windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
open it in notepad. If there's anything underneath the one line that says 127.0.0.1 localhost, select all and delete
then boot safe mode w networking, download MalwareBytes, update and scan
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Also run msconfig and check the start-up for suspicious file locations and names.
My always recommended advice: back up the stuff you can't live without and nuke the system from orbit.
I second this. If you have a properly set up system the time to restore is almost always less than the time it would take to root out the pests, and you can always be 100% sure you got it this way.
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open it in notepad. If there's anything underneath the one line that says 127.0.0.1 localhost, select all and delete
then boot safe mode w networking, download MalwareBytes, update and scan
PSN - MicroChrist
I'm too fuckin' poor to play
WordsWFriends - zeewoot
My always recommended advice: back up the stuff you can't live without and nuke the system from orbit.
I second this. If you have a properly set up system the time to restore is almost always less than the time it would take to root out the pests, and you can always be 100% sure you got it this way.
And after that, run super anti-spyware (It looks fake, but it's legit), I've had better luck with that than Malware Bytes lately