Google Redirect Virus Removal

Why it is that your web browser redirects to what appears to be the Google home page, and how to stop it doing so. Here's how to remove the Google redirect virus. (See all internet security tips.) What is the Google redirect virus? First we should explain that there is no single ' Google redirect virus'.

If every time you do a search and click a result link,you end up on some random page, even though the link shows you'd be going elsewhere,then we've got a bad news for you,your computer is infected with malware.

Ever go to Reno, Nevada? Well, if you have not, there is a terrific little virus making its way around the net that instantly takes you there from your search engine. About a month ago, one of my accounts in Manhattan reported that something was re-directing searches to odd websites, one of them coming up as SEARCH RENO.

How Did My Computer Become Infected with the Google Redirect Virus? The Google Redirect Virus is really a category of rootkits that is absolutely one of the most difficult pieces of malware to remove. It hides from almost all antivirus, antispyware, and removal tools and does not allow the user to visit many antispyware sites or download removal tools.