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Search engine Hijack?

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So on our main computer we suddenly have this problem where when we go to google or yahoo the whole site is different looking and whatever search results show up are actually fake advertisements or whathave you. we have run spybot and some other shit and can't get it to go away...
anyone have any suggestions? im clueless and felly, although somewhat less clueless can't fix it either. grumble grumble. danke.
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💬 2 comments

  1. heidi ·

    Yes, I can help, but not remotely... I'll mail privately.

  2. mrdt ·

    Sounds like you got a trojan horse and a pretty stubborn one. I've had a few over the past 10 years and they are a pain in the ass. Make sure your anti-virus is up to date and run it. Ad Aware may help also. Use your school terminal and do some research with the very specific things its doing. You may have to go into the registry and manually delete it.

    Sorry I'm not much help. I had my firewall down a few months ago and I wasn't paying much attention to what I was doing and I got a really bad trojan. I just reformatted my operating system drive (all My Documents and such are on a slave drive and were not effected) and re-installed all my software.

    It totally sucks but I'm sure with some solid research and a wasted day or two your computer will be close to where you had it - I hear they never really vanish

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