Any help is appreciated. And, please know that I have spent hours reading everything already posted, reviewing what appears to be the exact same thing that is happening to me, but mine I cannot for the life of me get to go away. Some point about 4 days ago, while browsing through a link off of a news site, I got directed to a shady "anti spyware" and eventually a XXX site. Some program had automatically loaded and was doing all of the "security scanning" etc etc.. By browser would launch automatically repeatedly and go to dozens of malicious sites...Through a combination of cleansing any and all cookies, temp files and running malwarebytes, I got rid of the program and the apparent problem. NOW - my computer seems to be working fine, Except - when I do a simple google search, and click on the search-result-links, my browser redirects to random shady websites.
I have closed everything, updated and run full scans of all of the following - malwarebytes, mccaffee av, adware se, ccleaner, and srubbed and removed every possible temp/cookie file known to mankind. On this forum, there were "8 steps to remove malware" - which I pretty much had done it all already. But, the one step said to disable real time scanning of my AV program, and install, update, and run "Superantispyware" - which to be honest sounded a lot like the malware program that I had fought to removed the day before, but oh well I did it and it is running right now. I also am attaching "hijackthis log, and malwarebytes log..." If you guys need the superantispyware log lemme know. I would never normally install and run this many separate 3rd party programs to "fix" anything, but this issue pas me perplexed.
If one of you guys can figure this out, I will be impressed!
Thanks,
JR
I have closed everything, updated and run full scans of all of the following - malwarebytes, mccaffee av, adware se, ccleaner, and srubbed and removed every possible temp/cookie file known to mankind. On this forum, there were "8 steps to remove malware" - which I pretty much had done it all already. But, the one step said to disable real time scanning of my AV program, and install, update, and run "Superantispyware" - which to be honest sounded a lot like the malware program that I had fought to removed the day before, but oh well I did it and it is running right now. I also am attaching "hijackthis log, and malwarebytes log..." If you guys need the superantispyware log lemme know. I would never normally install and run this many separate 3rd party programs to "fix" anything, but this issue pas me perplexed.
If one of you guys can figure this out, I will be impressed!
Thanks,
JR