Some type of virus , can't get to Google

I've got it.

I downloaded it recently and have to say I was impressed. It's a smooth browsing experience and I too, really like the way the tabs work, but for some reason I thought it would be more secure than previous incarnations of IE

PS - Ctrl + T for FF

 

in the past month, both my laptop and desktop got infected by Surfside Kick 3, and that is a ass to get rid of, had to reformate both, i could not find anything to get rid of it. So annoying

 

what tool in spybot? I am looking in the tools section. I tried hijack this and did not find anything that might be causing this.

 

I still like FireFox after getting IE7 B2.

 

still haven't gotten rid of this crap yet. tried hijack this , spybot, and no luck. has anyone gotten this and got rid of it without having to format the pc?

thanks

 

im working on it...if i find out i'll tell you.

argh, never surf the web before installing a firewall or something first

i notice if i logout and log back in it fixes it temporarily

 

I checked the registry to find where it is originating, no luck. What the hell is this thing. Someone else has to have figured out how to get rid of it . Please let me know if you find a solution. I'll do the same.

 

Surprised at how many people do NOT have a firewall installed on their computer or router.
And a good anti-virus program.

 

I just got a new comp and wanted to test it out BIG mistake, I never knew how bad it was

 

I use pest patrol. I had spyware bouncer from some crap MP3 ringtone creator i installed. Pest patrol found and removed these files. I use FF and it was redirecting random links to google serp pages. It was great fun.

 

Just some basic advices, (I never had a problem with that spyware)

Make sure that whatever antispyware you are using is updated
The best ones imho opinion are Spybot - Search and Destroy, Ad-Aware and Windows Defender. Hijackthis is very good but you need to understand the logs.

Get a starup manager to check what services, programs etc are running during boot (some good ones are WinPatrol, AutoRuns )

Check these forums
http://forum.aumha.org/viewforum.php?f=30
http://www.castlecops.com/forum67.html
http://forums.spybot.info/forumdisplay.php?f=22
http://forums.maddoktor2.com/index.php?showforum=17
http://spywarewarrior.com/viewforum.php?f=5

And either find a similar case or post your problem along with your logs.
Here is a related post for example

 

I had this problem when i was using the google toolbar to go to
google, it hasnt happened in awhile.

 

There is always Shawn's patented solution for seemingly insurmountable problems - stab it with a big knife

 

avast! fixed it for me