I seemed to have picked up some spyware that I can’t seem to get rid of.
It hijacks any link results I get from a websearch (does this in Google, Yahoo and MSN searches… haven’t tried anything else) and takes me to some random page. What’s funny is that while mostly they are those generic spyware kind of webpages you see around… once it took me to maxim.com… once it took me to amazon.com (?)
While I can still get online, if I try to get to any sort of web security site (Lavasoft, Norton, mcafee, f-secure, trendmicro you name it) those webpages will not load. I managed to get a definition update to adaware from download.com but Adaware does not find the problem. I also ran a full McAfee scan and it did not find the problem.
In addition- I tried to download a Hijack This and Malwarebytes (or something like that, something my friend recommended) and i can get the installer to download from download.com, but the programs won’t actually run to install. I’m sure this is related similar to how I seem to be blocked from web security websites.
In addition to running Adaware and McAfee… I have disabled everything in the background through msconfig… I went through my programs list in add/remove programs and don’t see anything unusual. I didn’t suspect either would help, but who knows.
Oh- one more thing… since this started. I seem to get random error messages telling me google installer has caused a problem… it’s the standard “Send Error Reprot” “Don’t Send” windows error box. I’m assuming this is related somehow.
Anyway- it’s driving me crazy. Any ideas?
