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Google Redirect Virus
http://tinyurl.com/c6aql8n
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The Google Redirect Virus is a "browser hijack" virus which will send your computer to fake
websites when you are redirected online. In normal circumstances, Windows will be able to send
you to the correct website when it is redirected, but if you have the Google Redirect Virus, the
virus will "inject" its own websites into the redirect process, leading your PC to send you to random
ones. This will happen for all redirects, not just search engine results... however, as most search
engine results will redirect you, that's where most people see the issue.
Not many people know this, but when you click on a link on the search engine, it won't take you to
the page you're looking for straight away. In fact, Google, Yahoo & Bing will all take you to a
special link on Google.com / Yahoo.com / Bing.com in order to track your searches and other
metrics. All search engines redirect your results, meaning that if you have the redirect virus, it's
going to show when you search for something online.
The reason why this virus is difficult to remove is because it doesn't leave any "footprint" or "trace"
on your system. Unlike typical virus infections (which will place a fake file / application onto your
PC), the search redirect virus will just change the redirect settings for Windows and then
disappear. This means that most antivirus programs are powerless to remove it
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Google Redirect Virus
http://tinyurl.com/c6aql8n
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