All day virus- Fake Google Toolbar

I just got worked all day…..   nasty virus,  many many false positives.  But ultimately as silly as it sounds…  just a bad toolbar.

 

http://www.pcworld.com/article/132398/hackers_can_hijack_pcs_with_firefox_addons.html

 

A bogus google toolbar would redirect google searches.  Annoying too was the fact that it was only ever 10^th search or so, so it almost seemed like it was fixed.  I use “firefox in safe mode” to verify and disable and reset all the google searches.

 

I could search for basic things like ‘chevy’ and ‘toyota’ and all kinds of doubleclick.net stuff would be in the status bar.

 

Anyway, fixed 5 hrs later.  I did other stuff too, but 3 hrs on this easy!

 

Kurt Rein
Mobile Computer Wizard
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