Remove Google Redirect Virus - Quick Tutorial To Get Rid Of The Google Redirect Virus From Your PC By James Henry Johnson
The Google Redirect Virus is not only one of the most annoying virus infections to come onto your PC, but also one of the most difficult to remove. Not many people realize this, but this particular Google Redirect Virus infection will not act like most viruses which install a program or files onto your PC to try and cause damage / problems. Instead, this virus works by changing a series of settings & files that your computer needs to use to run, leading most anti-virus programs to be totally unable to remove any part of the infection. You can normally tell if you have the Google Redirect Virus infection by the way your computer will continually redirect your search engine results. It will also tend to open random tabs on your web browsers, as well as causing a myriad of adverts & popups to show on screen. If you have this virus, you need to get rid of it in the most effective & reliable way possible - which unfortunately, cannot be done with traditional antivirus programs. The way to get rid of this infection is to use a program / software to get rid of the actual infected parts of the virus. The issue is that unlike typical viruses, the Google Redirect Virus just changes a few system settings on your computer - to basically change the redirect procedure of your PC. Each time your computer needs to redirect you to a different website (many websites will use a "301 redirect" to take you to another site), the virus will interject and then insert its own website into the redirection link. Because all search engines redirect you to your "target" website, most people see this problem when they click a search engine link. If you wan to get rid of the virus, you need to make sure the settings it has changed are working correctly - which can only be done with a special type of tool. Removal of the Google Redirect Virus is best done by using a tool called "ComboFix". This is a relatively obscure program which is used to help repair various damaged settings on Windows computers. This tool is an antivirus program that will scan through the files you tell it to, and fix the problems they have. You just need to download the program onto your PC and then use a special "script" to direct it to the correct files. This will remove all the files from your PC, and
then you just need to be able to use a registry cleaner program to get rid of any of the damaged settings it may have also placed onto your system.
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