The infamous Google redirect virus is a malicious “happening” that takes place in most cases on your computer which directs you to various ad sites around the internet when you click on results in the Google search engine.
Repairing computers in the Lehigh Valley, I’ve seen my fair share of this one! This thing has plagued many technicians all around the world, confused the best of us and caused reformats of millions of machines. Trying to find out exactly what to repair, whether it’s resetting all settings in Internet Explorer, deleting some registry keys or using the Symantec tool, is a challenge and through lengthy troubleshooting can take up a lot of time.
As a technician, you have to ask yourself, “when do I take the hit, regroup, and make the decision to reformat the machine?” I know, I know, you (if you care about being a good technician) don’t want to reformat the machine. That’s what the commercial guys do. We fix things as savvy technicians right? Yes, definitley, but after 3 hours, the impossibility of charging the client for the whole time (they’d freak out!), and a whole lot of frustration and dead ends, you may have to just pull the plug. Let’s chat it up!
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Some variants of this virus can even withstand a reformat. I had a computer here this week that the user had reinstalled Windows 7 from the recovery partition AND STILL HAD THE VIRUS. Since it was in the Master Boot Record it had control of the machine from the moment you hit the power button, no antivirus could see it and it just hung around making mayhem.
That’s insane! To withstand a reformat means something else is going on. When that machine connects back to the network, in many cases, it gets hit again! This has happened to me too. It stinks! Can’t believe it goes this far. Thanks for commenting, Steve.
Thanks for your comment on my blog Ryan. Thought I’d check yours out and found this post. Wow… this virus is nasty! Guess I’m lucky I haven’t seen it. Just curious, have you tried Hitman Pro? It’s cleared out lots of “bootkits” and MBR infections for me. I’ve also had luck with both the AVAST and Kespersky emergency boot CD’s.
Hey Steve,
Thanks for coming! Yea, this one’s crazy. I’ve heard of Hitman, and did try the free version of it one time a while back for a similar problem. It actually didn’t solve the problem, but got rid of some other trojans that were on the machine! Kaspersky works wonderfully (some of their tools) but I didn’t know there was book cds!! ?? I’ll have to check into that! Can you tell me more about them?
The Kaspersky disk is free and is more of a straight scanning tool, whereas the AVAST disk costs $10 and has all kinds of utilities on it. I think it costs money because it has a GUI built on a Win7 Preinstall Environment (like the old Bart PE for Win XP).I like the AVAST much better. Well worth the money! Try it out!