Google Redirect Virus

While you are reading this article here, someone somewhere right now is busy creating a new virus. There are so many viruses that enter the web world every day. Google Redirect Virus is one such latest malware to hit and infect millions of PCs worldwide. It is a search engine related virus that redirects Google and other search engine’s search results to malicious websites and spyware sites.

Google redirect virus is a silent malware which redirects you to random websites your searches to random websites by infecting certain drivers on your computer or install hidden services that will redirect you to random websites. It will change the settings of hosts file in Window so that when you open Google, a fake website will open which will look just like Google but is not the actual Google website.

Once your system has been infected by Google Redirect Virus, you will start noticing the following things. You will feel that your browser is acting strange. Your browser like Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Chrome etc will load very slowly and hang at times because of the third party application is monitoring your online activity. You wouldn’t be able to install any other browser to your system. When you will search something in Google, the results you will get wouldn’t be the correct ones. And it is not Google’s fault because their search system is not working for you but the virus is. At times the search results will be correct but when you will click on the links, you will get redirected to some other malicious website altogether. And this is not just with Google only. If you try to use other search engines like Bing or Yahoo, the same thing is bound to happen.

Now, it is not all that easy to fix redirect virus. But it is possible. For this you will have to try several methods because there are many strains of this virus and no single anti-virus software can identify and remove all of them. So try these steps for Redirect Virus removal from your system and see which one suits you the best.
TDSSKiller:  Kaspersky Labs bring you TDSSKiller free utility. It scans your computer for rootkits, bootkits and hidden services. Once you have downloaded it, unzip the downloaded file and run it in your system. Once it finds the rootkit, bootkit or hidden driver, it will disinfect your system automatically.

Spyware Doctor: Spyware Doctor has the biggest malware database. So, after you download it, scan your system for all possible threats. Its Intelli-guard feature will detect if other programs are interfering with your browser in some way. When the scan is completed, remove all the threats. Your system should be virus free.
Super Antispyware: If Spyware Doctor doesn’t help, then you can try Super Antispyware and scan your computer with this.

Hitman Pro: Hitman Pro is another spyware that can help you to get rid of Redirect Virus from your system. It has an advanced technology called Cloud Scan. Hitman Pro uploads suspicious files to its cloud and can detect some threats which are missed by all other products.
You can use spyware to fix redirect virus, but be careful. At times these spyware actually have a hidden virus that can worsen the situation.