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Struggled with this issue for a week. Downloaded Malwarebytes and it didnt fix it, but after todays update it found and quarantined the search hijack. Here is the log it gave me. Malwarebytes is awesome. Ive tried other ones. AVG is pretty good, Hitman 3.5 is pretty good.

I havent had good luck with spyware doctor. I'm a malwarebytes fan.

Ive used malwarebytes on several occasions and on several PC's and it works the best in my opinion. When it doesnt fix something right away, after a couple of days of getting updates, it does. And it's free. The upgraded (paid) version is the one that will protect your PC and does auto updates, I think. And if I wasnt on a company laptop I'd buy their paid version just to say thanks for getting me out of several jams. Also- for those who dont know this.BE CAREFUL about downloading spyware detection software.

Its often spyware itself, just posing as a fix. Heres the log file it gave me today after finding '1' infection in my registry, that others did not find.

It then immediately told me to backup and format the drive. There may be a problem with permissions, for example when I click Get Info it sometimes, and I emphasize ‘sometimes’, shows that I can only read, not write. Other times it says read and write so I’m confused. I obviously don’t want to lose the images so I didn’t format it, and i can’t back it up if I cant copy over the files to another drive (because I can’t even see them). How to save pro tools session to external mac hard drive to send to another studio for mixing.

Hi, I had this exact same problem, here is what I did: #1 - Run regedt32 (windows registry editor). Search for ' - you will see one or two of the hijacked CSE URL, delete the value that you see (not the key).

This will prevent IE from having the problem, although it persists in Firefox. To remove from Firefox as well.

#2 - In the Program Files/Mozilla Firefox/searchengine directory, find google.xml and remove the CSE line (or delete the file altogether if you don't know enough HTML to remove the problem URL) #3 - Unfortunately there is no way to get around this, you need to uninstall Firefox then reinstall. You can keep all your settings, but you do need to uninstall the program itself. As far as the cause. This seems to be a problem in the Firefox executable itself, somehow it can be configured to permanently and unchanageably force the CSE, even when no remnant of that CSE URL exists in any other file or registry key or setting. Hopefully Mozilla takes this one seriously because in my research I have been seeing a LOT of people having this issue!

Also I hope Google sues; quite frankly I'd like to sue them myself to recoup my losses for all the time it took me to get rid of their hijack. Kenbb, 8:34 น. I've helped clean up several computers with this problem. My general approach: 1. Check your browser history. It's probably been erased to hide the location where you picked up the trojan. It gives you an idea how long you've been infected 2.

Make sure you have copies of any license information for antivirus products or other things you purchased and installed recently, because you're going to uninstall them. Use system restore in Windows to restore your system to a point prior to when you browser history disappeared. This should uninstall the trojan as well. It will still be on your computer, but it will no longer be blocking your antivirus from detecting it. Download updates for your antivirus/antispyware/firewall programs as they will have been set back by system restore. It should find the downloaded file the was installed, now that it's no longer running. It may find several other things as well.

Things that are called tracking cookies are not capable of doing this. You're looking for something executable. Go to a help site like Spywarehammer.com or Bleepingcomputer.com to have someone walk you through the process of making sure your computer has been completely disinfected.

It's possible you have something worse than a browser hijack, and it isn't always possible to recover your computer. I had checked the hosts file, the firefox google.XML file the about:config settings searched the registry with regedit, all to no avail. Most useful advice I found was 'install hitman pro'. Downloaded and ran it and the first thing it said was 'unsafe dns server address 93.188.162.230' 'this network connection is using a blacklisted dns server address' Never thought about checking the network connection device tcp/ip properties until then!