Monday, 6 December 2010

Malware and Other Ills

This weekend I picked up a virus ..... no not the 'woman flu', or 'heavy cold' that is going around frozen Britain, no I mean one of those horrors that beset the Internet, the Trojan/virus call it what you will.


The one I got was the "Google Redirect" .... this is caused by something called the 'TDL3 Rootkit' which causes the Google redirect virus infection. A person who is using Google as a home page or search engine is redirected to visiting unwanted websites ..... and its a real bugger to get rid of!!

Eventually after much searching (hampered greatly by the fact that I was being redirected) I found a site that didn't just spout nonsense ....  "How to Remove the Google Redirect Virus", which apart from being full of generally good advice, has a specific link to the the utility 'TDSSKiller.exe' which is by Kaspersky, and killed the problem in a few moments ...... so a full cheer from a grateful web user for these companies who offer free cures for very nasty little problems.

Oddly, I still have no idea where I picked this problem up from because I most definitely did not give any administrator permissions to a download ..... ah well, at least its apparently fixed for now. 



 
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2 comments:

  1. Kev Dixon20 December 2010 at 13:03

    Luckily I didn't have it, but I'm expecting a shout from Kenny anyday now.

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  2. No PC1 January 2011 at 19:33

    I am not sure he would recognise he had it .... may require a conversation asking him if he is being sent to unexpected places ... he would probably then say he thought it was odd but decided not to say anything LOL

    Still the link to the fix is here, so you know where to download it from mate.

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