Possible Browser Hijack help

philip41 · 25 Aug 2009 at 13:29

Hi guys, my colleague is having difficulties with Firefox and IE 8.

Problem he is having is that every time he tries to search the net for anything he is always getting pages redirected, usually to another search engine like yahoo for example.

If he then clicks back then clicks the same link again it will go to the searched for item.

If i search the same item it goes straight to the item searched for.

Any help or suggestions welcome.

Phil

Smit · 25 Aug 2009 at 13:47

Grab some spyware removal tools.

Malwarebytes would be the first choice to use and then things like Spybot etc..
Might want to run these in Safe Mode too along with a virus scan

philip41 · 25 Aug 2009 at 13:59

Cheers Smit, will give it a go.

Thank You.

philip41 · 25 Aug 2009 at 15:35

Thank you very much, i downloaded Malwarebytes it found the problem within minutes, all sorted now.

Phil.