Stupid interrupting starfish grmmbl.

[hazliya]

So, I'm having this issue when I use google to search and click on a link. The link will then take me to an unrelated spam-filled random search engine designed to wreck my system.

Malwarebytes' scan turns up nothing. Can anyone help?

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[laurion]

Malware has gotten sneakier about blocking different anti-malware applications ability to update, or in some cases, to even detect the issue.

I had an infection like that some time ago (It may have been a vundo or virtumundo variant, I think), and to get rid of it involved Going to a clean computer, putting an up to date copy of MB, Spybot, and Ad-Aware onto a flash drive, booting the infected machine into safe mode so the malware had as little chance to interefere as possible, and running the tools from the flash drive. Try that.

Sadly, we're getting more and more to the day when the only real way to remove an infection is to back up your data (you have backups, right?) and reformatting the system.