I have some sort of redirect when using Firefox and google. I can't seem to find it so I have resorted to using Chrome
It takes me to malicious sites when I click on the first choice on a google search no matter where it is in the ranking. It is really annoying. I have anti Malware and avast. Neither seems to find it. I am not computer saavy enough to get into the root logs etc. and I don't want to pay a bunch of money just to use my beloved Firefox. Can I delete firefox then re download it?
It takes me to malicious sites when I click on the first choice on a google search no matter where it is in the ranking. It is really annoying. I have anti Malware and avast. Neither seems to find it. I am not computer saavy enough to get into the root logs etc. and I don't want to pay a bunch of money just to use my beloved Firefox. Can I delete firefox then re download it?
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Do a malware check with some malware scanning programs on the Windows computer.
You need to scan with all programs because each program detects different malware.
Make sure that you update each program to get the latest version of their databases before doing a scan.
- http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php - Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
- http://www.superantispyware.com/ - SuperAntispyware
- http://www.microsoft.com/security/scanner/en-us/default.aspx - Microsoft Safety Scanner
- http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/defender/default.mspx - Windows Defender: Home Page
- http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html - Spybot Search & Destroy
You can also do a check for a rootkit infection with TDSSKiller.
See also:
- "Spyware on Windows": http://kb.mozillazine.org/Popups_not_blocked