i need some help with a virus

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for some reason i keep getting redirected in firefox and ie when i click or go to any site, it has taken me about 30 tried just to post this message and i have no idea whats caused it :confused:

i keep getting sent to a site called greatfeedmill.com
this is a fresh install of windows 7 home premium and i dont have any antivirus software, i used housecall and it detected and cleaned some trojans but it seems something is still on my pc

here is a picture of what happens, you can see at the bottom left that im on this forum and it says "Waiting for greatfeedmill.com..." :mad:
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anyone else ever had this or know a way to fix it? i really dont fancy installing windows again
 
What A/V are you running? Do you scan with it regularly? It'd probably be a good idea to scan if you have a virus. Not quite sure what else to tell you right now.

EDIT: Just read again 'i dont have any antivirus software'. Well there's your problem. There are some half decent free A/V's out there, read the stickys in this forum using another browser or another PC and install one. For win 7 you could try microsoft security essentials.
 
i'm using a free 30 day trial of bitdefender and it found a few things i didnt know i had.

worth a try if its free!!?
 
Bitdefender isn't bad. You need a permanent A/V solution on there though.

Try scanning with Malwarebytes if you can get hold of it too. Can't go far wrong with running a spybot scan either.
 
Tbh spybot is the first stop for browser based problems, then malwarebytes, there's plenty free av out there, avast, avg, comodo etc all good. If you've got a bd trial just use that, by try spybot first.
 
Run malwarebytes and get a decent AV - I use NOD32. I personally dont like spybot. Any machines I clean I use

Malwarebytes then
Combofix then
install AVAST Home (If the machine has no AV installed)
 
thanks for all the help guys :) i just found a solution on a other forum where someone had used ccleaner first and then malwarebytes :)

ill definetly be grabbing some av software in the morning :p
 
Also if you decided to turn UAC off, turn it back on, it closes down a lot of these sorts of attacks by its very nature.
 
thanks for the advice :) i have it turned on tho
i know what caused the virus now and it was all my own fault, rather than install my version of psotoshop i decided to get a lite version from newsgroups :rolleyes:
must have been packaged with the installer or something but lesson learned

i hope i didnt seem rude by asking for help here and then coming back to post about getting it from another place, i didnt expect to get help so fast and it was a mission to load any kind of webpage :)

im about to install AVAST Home as Swordfish suggested so thanks again guys
 
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Reinstall IMO tbh. Your comp's been compromised - you can't be confident it hasn't installed a keylogger or some such thing and is just waiting for you to log into internet banking etc.
 
IE8 in protected mode is better than Firefox if you don't have a particular aversion to IE, but in this case that wasn't the weak link in the chain - it was the user. ;)

I'd second what was said above - reinstall. If I went to the trouble of packaging malware into something like that then I'd make sure it had a particularly nasty payload. I personally wouldn't take the risk. Once you've finished your reinstall I'd think about changing any passwords you might have used during the period of infection as well.

Sounds like you've learned your lesson though. Playing with software from untrusted sources will get you burned eventually.
 
thanks :) i didnt actually log into anything when i got the problem but i just finished my format/reinstall of windows

now to get to work on installing all my programs and to dig out my photoshop cd :p
 
miniyazz said:
Reinstall IMO tbh. Your comp's been compromised - you can't be confident it hasn't installed a keylogger or some such thing and is just waiting for you to log into internet banking etc.
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That's not true. If you're competent with the Sysinternals Suite you can see if there are any nasties left.
 
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