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RoadKingLarry

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Computer help please.
« on: January 18, 2011, 08:40:08 PM »
I managed to get my first serious virus/malware in 15 years of internet activity on my netbook a few weeks ago.
So far as I know I was able to get rid of it with Norton.
However, I am still getting redirects from search engine results, the redirects take me to really oddball search sites that I've never heard of.
Where do I need to look for the cause of these redirects?
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Re: Computer help please.
« Reply #1 on: January 18, 2011, 08:46:39 PM »
Download and run Malwarebytes, then Ad-Aware.

If you are getting redirects, you are still infected.
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Re: Computer help please.
« Reply #2 on: January 18, 2011, 08:47:21 PM »
Combofix and malwarebytes.

Hijack This if Norton'll let it run (one of the AV products sees it as a "hacking tool" and deletes it), and you know what you're looking at.
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Re: Computer help please.
« Reply #3 on: January 18, 2011, 10:44:17 PM »
Malwarebytes found 6 infections.
Looks like that fixed it.
Norton suxs.
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