Google Redirect virus

Haha True, I've been holding onto this thing for a while. I got it for free from my Ex g/f's brother about 5 years ago. He didn't use it anymore. I wiped it clean and re-installed windows, and added 1G ram when I got it from him. Literally removed almost everything I possibly could from it after reinstalling windows. The only programs installed on it are office xp, my antivirus software, Adaware, Spybot, Itunes, Utorrent (which i haven't used in a long time), and Firefox for web browsing. It has been great for what I use it for which is only Internet, Music, Pictures, and excel spreadsheets for my business.

 

Should be easy to restore then.

Especially if it's used for a business, I wouldn't even mess with removing it. If TDSSKiller didn't get it, you're probably not going to get rid of it. I assume you followed the remaining directions on the link I posted however...

 

Hmmm... I didn't try re-naming the program. I'll try that when I get home from work.

I did run the Norton TDSSfix program. It didn't work.

 

TDSSKiller is Kapersky. That's the one that fixed it for me. I don't remember renaming the file, but I do see that in the directions.

Follow that post carefully.

 

Yep, that's the one I have.

 

Turn off System Restore before you run any spyware/antivirus or it will come right back when you reboot. Just remember to turn it back on when you are sure the machine is clean.

 

I bet the other computer(s) are STD machines.

 

OP i have your same exact problem, for about 3-4 weeks now. The worst BS virus i ever had! I still have it, can't get rid of it. Tried EVERYTHING, short of wiping everything clean.

 

Then why not just wipe it?

Honestly, it's not worth the effort to remove. 3-4 weeks!?!? It wouldn't take that long to wipe & restore EVERYTHING, I guarantee it!

 

^^^I just have SOOOO much shit.....I cant face the fact of starting over

 

You would've been done with this 3-4 weeks ago if you had just wiped it. Everyone has a lot of shit - I have 2.5 terabytes of shit on my server. But the point is, if you can't get rid of it with a few scans and a little bit of research - it's usually not worth removing manually. Even if you remove it and don't notice it, what's leftover? Who knows, and now it has access to all your shit.

There's a lot of tools out there, but obviously these bastages that write the virii/rootkits/etc are always trying to stay ahead of them. Hence why it's always a good idea to just wipe it if you get infected. My company has a policy to wipe without even caring on our branch PC's. There's something to be said for having that down to a science when you run Windoze..

 

^^^ u r right

 

You'll be surprised how much you don't bother to reinstall after reformatting. It's like spring cleaning. Good for any computer every once in a while, IMO.

 

My Linux server is due, even. It's not infected, but damn... I need to add more HDD's, plus it's 32-bit. Always wanted to get it up to 64... 12.04 is coming soon too .

 

not to hijack, but what linux are you running arrrghhh?

Im trying to get a ubuntu machine running with modx so our website guy can play around with it. (hosted godaddy server using modx is our live one)

 

this just worked for me!!!!!!! OMG thank you so much....PM me your addy, amd I will send you some TW cards for hookin me up!


1st thing i googled was "how you like me now".... LOL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVzvRsl4rEM

 

I've seen this quite a few times and have tried a ton of tools. Usually one thing or another gets it, but lately i've been using hitmanpro 3.5 http://www.surfright.nl/en/downloads to get rid of this particular nasty. Just active the free 30 day trial and see if it gets rid of it, other than starting fresh which is usually recommended.

 

So last night I tried re-naming TDSS-killer and running it. It didn't work.

I think I found my windows disk. I found two different windows disks, I'll have to see which is which... and I found an office 2007 disk I didn't know I had (was running office 2003 on that computer). I'm gonna hold off until this weekend though, A buddy of mine who works for geek squad is going to come over this weekend and try a few different tools he uses at work.

If it doesn't work, I think I'm going to just buy a new laptop and go ahead and wipe this computer and re-install the OS. I started moving all of my documents, pictures, and music out to my network storage (external hard drive hooked up to my router) last night.

 

Keep googling stuff. I've found that the first few google searches worked fine, then it came back after 3 or 4 searches.