Help with browser hijacker

[DoahMonty]

Not sure if I'm in the right place, this was the closest forum I could find for my issue. I'm NOT running XP, I'm running Vista Home Premium. While using Internet Explorer (I prefer that over other browsers, spare me the hate mail lol), and I use a search engine, EVERY time I click on one of my results, I'm redirected to random sites. I recently cleaned up some mal ware on the computer and I'm guessing this is just left over.

I'm using Avast AV, and I've tried resetting IE back to all defaults. It's more annoying than anything and I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction.

Virus scans are coming up clean fyi.

thanks in advance.

 

[vacunita]

Vista forum here: forum1583

but for starters, try running the free version of malwarebytes from here:

http://www.malwarebytes.org/

You should also want to run hijackthis, and post the log it produces. sounds like IE has been hijacked by something.






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Phil AKA Vacunita
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[Turkbear]

Hi,
Sadly it seems you got hit with the overclick.cn trojan...It is very tricky and most anti-virus/anti-spyware programs miss it.

Here is some info on the steps needed to remove it:

Overclick.cn - Google Redirect

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic237695.html

Here is more info on using ComboFix..

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/combofix/how-to-use-combofix

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