Google hijack mega virus

starlightstef · Joined: Oct 28, 2009 Posts: 3

I have the virus everyone has been talking about that reroutes google searches. I've done tons of research trying to figure out how to get rid of it using various spyware programs. My big problem is that none of those programs will run on my computer.

I've had AVG for a long time, and now it won't scan my computer anymore. I tried downloading spybot, hijackthis and a couple others and the install fails. I also downloaded malwarebytes anti-malware but it shuts down about 4 seconds into a scan and then the program won't open anymore.

Another problem (and I don't know if this is related...) is my hotmail won't let me write emails anymore and I can't see my facebook account anymore... grrr!

What is going on?!?! How can I fix this?!?! Any help is appreciated.

ak24 · Joined: Jul 30, 2009 Posts: 5

Download Process Explorer from http://live.sysinternals.com/procexp.exe in C:\ folder. Rename procexp.exe to explorer.exe and run the program. Find and terminate all suspicious processes using Process Explorer (likely there will be randomly named processes, for example xy59a.exe ir similar). Then download one of the anti-spyware applications listed here:
http://www.2-spyware.com/compare.php

I recommend Spyware Doctor or MalwareBytes anti-malware. Scan your computer and remove Google redirect virus.

Good luck!