I've apparently become the victim of something called "internet hijacking". If I use a search engine, any links I click on direct me to questionable websites. My Norton Antivirus ran a full system scan and detected nothing. Advice?
I've apparently become the victim of something called "internet hijacking". If I use a search engine, any links I click on direct me to questionable websites. My Norton Antivirus ran a full system scan and detected nothing. Advice?
STOP: Malwarebytes won't work, and Hitmanpro has False Positives
Mayself and others Malware specialists go through specific proceedures for a reason, for logs for one.
Please read carefully and follow these steps.
Download TDSSKiller hxxp://support.kaspersky.com/downloads/utils/tdsskiller.exe and save it to your Desktop. (replace the hxxp with http)
doubleclick on TDSSKiller.exe to run the application,
Find the Change Parameters on the Main IU screen, then Select the Detect TDLFS filesystem.
then on Start Scan.
If an infected file is detected, the default action will be Cure, click on Continue.
If a suspicious file is detected, the default action will be Skip, click on Continue.
It may ask you to reboot the computer to complete the process. Click on Reboot Now.
If no reboot is require, click on Report. A log file should appear. Please copy and paste the contents of that file here.
If a reboot is required, the report can also be found in your root directory, (usually C:\ folder) in the form of "TDSSKiller.[Version]_[Date]_[Time]_log.txt". Please attach the log in the post back
Please download aswMBR hxxp://public.avast.com/~gmerek/aswMBR.exe to your desktop. (replace the hxxp with http)
Double click the aswMBR.exe icon to run it
it will ask to download extra definitions - ALLOW IT, YES
Click the Scan button to start the scan
On completion of the scan, click the save log button, save it to your desktop and Please attach the log in the post back
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