# Getting rid of go.google

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-rid-of-go-google/470248>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 30, 2008, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-rid-of-go-google/470248 "2008-10-30T14:24:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-rid-of-go-google/470248/1 "2008-10-30T14:24:43Z")

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I’m not quite sure what I did, but I was trying to fill out a form for Ticket Asster, when my system just decided to reboot. Now anything I search for in Google redirects me to the useless pain in the butt go.google instead of giving me what I asked for.

I hate spyware or malware or whatever the fork it is.

How can I rid myself of this idiocy? (I’d Google it myself, but, well…)

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**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-rid-of-go-google/470248/2 "2008-10-30T14:43:36Z")

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[This might help](http://forums.techguy.org/malware-removal-hijackthis-logs/746850-go-google-redirect-virus.html).

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**Author:** ![Wallenstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@Wallenstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallenstein)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-rid-of-go-google/470248/3 "2008-10-30T14:58:10Z")

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I removed this with [Malwarebytes Anti-Malware](http://www.besttechie.net/tools/mbam-setup.exe) (from Duckster’s link).

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**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-rid-of-go-google/470248/4 "2008-10-30T14:59:25Z")

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I got “The page cannot be displayed” on both links.

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**Author:** ![gazpacho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6f9a4e/32.png) [@gazpacho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gazpacho)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-rid-of-go-google/470248/5 "2008-10-30T15:47:05Z")

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> [@tdn](#):
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> I got “The page cannot be displayed” on both links.

They both worked fine for me.

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**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-rid-of-go-google/470248/6 "2008-10-30T16:32:20Z")

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Your computer has been hijacked in such a way that Google search results get redirected and most sites with known anti-malware fixes are blocked. So if you try to go to, say, [housecall.trendmicro.com](http://housecall.trendmicro.com) that will be blocked (you can’t reach it) so will the Malware Bytes site too. You can probably get to, say, [msnbc.com](http://msnbc.com) just fine.

If you’re familiar with the Hosts file, the way this virus works is sort of like making a whole bunch of bad entries in Hosts only it’s not doing that it’s doing it in a place where you can’t reach it.

If you want, I’ll put it on my server and give you a link to it. My server shouldn’t be blocked via this virus. PM me (I don’t want to publicize my server).