So apparently there’s a new virus going around that evades most anti-virus programs. It hijacks Google search results so that when you click on a search result it (sometimes) redirects to 9newstoday.net (or similar) website, which is clearly a fake click-gathering operation.
And apparently I’ve got it.
Norton, AVG and Housecall all don’t detect it, much less fix it.
Also, my internet seems slow. But it’s been intermittently slow before, because I have a shitty ISP. Any way I can tell if this is the problem or if it’s just typical slowness from a lousy ISP?
Well BleepingComputer.com doesn’t have any specific course of action on anything resembling “9newstoday” which is unfortunate. However, several recent instances of people going there for advice with your problem.
I second Quaro’s nomination of ComboFix - and when I run it I always eschew the whole ‘recovery console’ angle and let it go without.
Before that I would say try to follow one of the basic guides for eradicating the recent strains of hijack/redirect/fakeAV viruses… basically like this:
(I am referring you to a specific set of instructions - you don’t have THIS virus but the steps from “Automated Removal Instructions” on are pretty universal/generic. Links to the various tools needed are included.)
I’m trying out a restore point from about a week ago to see if that fixes it. Otherwise, I’ll progress with the other options listed. I think this thing was clogging my internet connection as well, post-restore things certainly seem a bit zippier. Speedtests taken with my iPad before and after are inconclusive, though.
