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A Detailed look at the Google Redirect Virus Removal
You might think that browsing on the Internet with an anti-virus program installed will guarantee you safety from viruses and malware. This type of misconception is what enables virus creators to take advantage of weak anti-virus solutions and then install their malware. Anti-virus software is only effective for viruses it knows about. Most offer a certain level of heuristic detection but for new viruses such as the Google redirect virus, It is often useless and unable to detect and protect against it.
Google Redirect Virus – How it Hides Itself: sophisticated virus creation allows for the Google redirect virus to hide itself deep within the operating system by making use of core system files or basic device drivers such as ACPI.sys. By doing this, the virus doesn’t have to create its own processes which can be easily detected by anti-virus software. It also doesn’t need to create registry keys for the start-up items.
Google Redirect Virus – What it Does: its primary objective is to relocate users to different websites from the ones they intended to visit through the search engine results. These sites normally drop cookies, server advertisements or inject further malware into the user’s computer. They can affect the browsing experience but also further risk the security of the computer.
Google Redirect Virus – How You Become Infected: There are several ways this can happen. The most common is downloading an infected file from a torrent site or another malicious download website like a keygen site. Some other legitimate sites might get hacked and then infected with web exploits which attempt to install the malware onto any users who visit it.
In a lot of cases the virus will remain undetected for quite some time, eventually your anti-virus program might release a definitions update that will find it but depending on the type of redirect virus, this might not happen.
Specialised software is the best bet when attempting to remove the Google redirect virus since it was programmed specifically to find the footprints that it leaves behind. These include modifications to the core system drivers and registry modifications. Several tests have been performed with tools such as Malware Bytes and in most cases, it proved to be ineffective against it. On the other hand, a specialist tool such as combofix was able to detect the virus first time and remove it without having to lose any system or personal data.
Manual instructions are also available on many popular tech forums for removing the Google redirect virus, most of these require some advanced knowledge in IT as they require registry modifications. For sheer ease of use, a highly targeted software solution is the best way to remove the virus and ensure that all traces of it are deleted. Some string variations are capable of reproducing once they are removed since their root kit type behaviour allows them to have separate threads sitting deep down within the kernel. These are often never removed by standard software and will then replicate the core virus files if they are deleted.
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