# Help ! My Google has been Hijacked

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-google-has-been-hijacked/559701>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 6, 2010, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-google-has-been-hijacked/559701 "2010-11-06T15:27:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2010, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-google-has-been-hijacked/559701/1 "2010-11-06T15:27:53Z")

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Everthing is fine to a point. The google page appears promptly upon demand.

Then I enter my search.

Results pop out.

Now the problem.

When I click on any of the results, I get full screen spam instead.

There is no way to even click it off and get to the desired page.

Is it a worm in my computer, or Google problem ?

Any help is appreciated.

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**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2010, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-google-has-been-hijacked/559701/2 "2010-11-06T16:16:01Z")

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I can’t help you there, but I would like to comment that over the past 4 or 5 days, when I google something, just as a random example french wire beadwork, I would get 3 or 4 good links, and then an assload of links that would be something like:  
[http://properURL.c0m/wx7fjt7f](http://properURL.c0m/wx7fjt7f)

and the little green glyph thingy that AVG pops up for a safe link, but when it is clicked it is redirected to a virus page, if I were to click. I dont click, because I know the random string of letters and numbers means the link will actually go to a hijack with probably a virus.

Then I went to an amazon page that looked normal, and instantly I got a popup that faked looking like a virus scan with lots of negative hits and i immediately popped my wifi touchspot to disconnect from the net, and shut down the computer, restarted in safe mode, made sure that I didn’t actually get anything. [last time I got a virus was because my roomie clicked yes to clean the viruses, it was that damned AV that is a virus thingy. She doesn’t get to use my laptop any more.]

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**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2010, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-google-has-been-hijacked/559701/3 "2010-11-06T17:23:11Z")

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Download and run [Malwarebytes](http://malwarebytes.org). That should fix the problem.

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**Author:** ![ExcitedIdiot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ea5d25/32.png) [@ExcitedIdiot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExcitedIdiot)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2010, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-google-has-been-hijacked/559701/4 "2010-11-06T18:35:55Z")

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I recommend using [Combofix](http://www.combofix.org). I’ve used it on similar viruses, it always got rid of it for good. Also, it’s quick and free.