No VW content: Internet question, what's hijacking my searches

karmannghia60 Karmann Ghia Sucker

1,459 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 12 May 2010, 5:23 pm

#778176

I must have accessed a web page I shouldn't recently now I have a lot of crap on my laptop. If I google something then click on one of the search results, it takes me to something totally different and I can't click on the Back button to go back to the search results. I have to open another Explorer window and run the search again. Also if I type a link incorrectly, I get taken to a wsearch page which I can't get rid of.
I ran SuperAntiSpy which picked few things, cleaned them but the above still there
What do I do?
Raf

amazeer Bishop of Volkswagenism

3,029 posts · joined Nov 2005 · 12 May 2010, 6:21 pm

#778190

try http://www.malwarebytes.org/
I found it picks up a lot of things the others dont.

karmannghia60 Karmann Ghia Sucker

1,459 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 13 May 2010, 11:16 am

#778328

Thanks Mate, looks like it fixed it

bajachris88 The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 6

6,661 posts · joined Apr 2005 · 13 May 2010, 11:38 am

#778331

I will stand by malwarebytes as well! 👍

That with avast and u have all the free best anti-malware and anti-virus available, with no cost. 👍

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jeremyluke Seriously Crusin Dubber

126 posts · joined Mar 2010 · 13 May 2010, 1:30 pm

#778341

Sumtimes with things lyk that you can just do a System Restore, in start -- accessiries -- system tools. Usually its just a little annoying virus that may come in a website packet and it changes your registry around so a System Restore will return it back to how it was before.

Thats if you have system restore enabled on your computer...