Search Redirect Virus

[EmporerEJ]

Originally Posted by Electra

I've been battling with a Google search redirect virus this past week. Nothing I did worked. After endless research and trying 8...yes 8...different anti virals and anti malware programs I finally found out what it was and found a program to delete it. Apparently I had TDL3 Alureon and none of the programs I tried could find it. I finally tried Hitman 3 and that discovered Alureon was hiding in a driver and deleted it. I'm sure Harry would have discovered it in a couple of hours..but a week is good for me LOL.

I think I may STILL have that on one of my test machines.......
Hitman 3 got rid of it?

[Electra]

Originally Posted by EmporerEJ

I think I may STILL have that on one of my test machines.......
Hitman 3 got rid of it?

Yes..I downloaded the trial version of Hitman 3 and did a scan and it came up with the TDL3 Alureon and a lot of tracking cookies. It deleted half of Alureon and said the other half would be deleted on boot up. So far it hasn't come back. I think I got it from a porn site while researching sponsors for some blogs I am doing...wish I knew which one so I don't go back there. The only thing I didn't like about Hitman 3 is that although it recommended deleting the tracking cookies it was unable to delete most of them.

Apparently Alureon is one of the top five that people get. Its not really dangerous..just makes life miserable since you can't do searches by clicking links on the web. I was able to get around by typing in directly the urls I wanted to go to.

[EmporerEJ]

Originally Posted by Electra

Yes..I downloaded the trial version of Hitman 3 and did a scan and it came up with the TDL3 Alureon and a lot of tracking cookies. It deleted half of Alureon and said the other half would be deleted on boot up. So far it hasn't come back. I think I got it from a porn site while researching sponsors for some blogs I am doing...wish I knew which one so I don't go back there. The only thing I didn't like about Hitman 3 is that although it recommended deleting the tracking cookies it was unable to delete most of them.

Apparently Alureon is one of the top five that people get. Its not really dangerous..just makes life miserable since you can't do searches by clicking links on the web. I was able to get around by typing in directly the urls I wanted to go to.

Yep, that's it.