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Malware that Redirects your Web Search

A lot of new malware redirects your search engine queries to low tier search engines which just scrape results from google and yahoo and throw up “tons” of ads instead info or the site you were looking for.

One of the low tier search scraper search engine that is plaguing people is Toseeka.com . Toseeka.com simply scrapes the google and yahoo database and then loads their UI with ads. Take a look at the screenshots below for a search on ‘antivirus’…holy ads batman.

If you are redirected to Toseeka.com then you are infected with malware. The malware that does the redirection can easily be detected with HiJackThis and removed with HiJackThis (oddly enough). If you don’t know what to remove upon examining your HiJackThis log you can email your log to us ( askus@remove-malware.com ) and we’ll tell you.



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USB Malware: INF/autorun prevention and removal

INF/autorun is USB malware (aka – a USB virus) that is automatically installed to your PC via an autorun.inf file. Since USB drives are so popular these days most of the new malware released also copies itself to the USB flash drive and waits to travel to a new PC.

The USB malware threat is somewhat overblown.  Most antivirus programs can easily detect and clean USB flash drive viruses as long as the anti-virus software is up to date, however as we all know, not everyone runs anti-virus or keeps it up to date.

For more prevention, consider running a Host Intrusion Detection program along with your anti-virus (like Threatfire). HIT programs can easily prevent USB viruses from auto-installing and HIT doesn’t need to be updated as much as anti-virus software.

I personally have come into contact with a USB virus (from my wife :P ) and it was easily killed via Kaspersky.

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