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Recently all my searches are forced redirects away from my intended sites. Once at the redirect I cannot go back to search. I close Firefox and either try again or go to another browser. How can I stop these redirects. I've run Malwarebytes, Spybot Search

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Recently all my searches are forced redirects away from my intended sites. Once at the redirect I cannot go back to search. I close Firefox and either try again or go to another browser. How can I stop these redirects. I've run Malwarebytes, Spybot Search & Destroy & Glary Utilities. Nothing helps. I've deleted & reinstalled Firefox. Worked good the first time I ran it and then the redirects started up again. Now I'm getting some bogus PC Alert which tries to scan my system. I shut down firefox Immediately. Any ideas?

This happened

Every time Firefox opened

Approximately 10 days ago.

User Agent

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; GTB0.0; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; OfficeLiveConnector.1.3; OfficeLivePatch.0.0; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)

Recently all my searches are forced redirects away from my intended sites. Once at the redirect I cannot go back to search. I close Firefox and either try again or go to another browser. How can I stop these redirects. I've run Malwarebytes, Spybot Search & Destroy & Glary Utilities. Nothing helps. I've deleted & reinstalled Firefox. Worked good the first time I ran it and then the redirects started up again. Now I'm getting some bogus PC Alert which tries to scan my system. I shut down firefox Immediately. Any ideas? == This happened == Every time Firefox opened == Approximately 10 days ago. == == User Agent == Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; GTB0.0; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; OfficeLiveConnector.1.3; OfficeLivePatch.0.0; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)

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Wikiwide
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Maybe, it's related to Gumblar

GooredFix might help you. GooredFix means Google Redirect Fix.

It's definitely malware. Most likely, it came through either Flash or Javascript or even PDF file.

Maybe, ScanSafe or Sophos are better than MalwareBytes at detecting it, I don't know. But GooredFix should fix it, I hope.

In worst case, use ComboFix.

Does it help you?

Install NoScript to prevent bad sites from running Javascript.

Stop PDF files from running javascript: open Adobe Reader, go to Edit->Preferences...->Javascript and check off "Enable Acrobat Javascript" so that Javascript couldn't be run in PDF.

dourepair
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had the same thing going on tried everything found a win32/alureor.h virus buy using Microsoft security essntials download for free at Microsoft.com now all is good