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Visitors' Survey: Google
24-04-2013 1:27 PM
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It seems that the Google search page is displayed for a second or so before the other page is shown. I close the Tab and start again. But this doesn't happen every time.
I've also had a similar experience with dailymail.co.uk and bbc.co.uk but directing to a different survey page.
I regularly run Malwarebytes, Spybot and MSE having updated each beforehand. I have run each just now as well as checking Programs and Features, Addons, etc and cannot find anything untoward.
A Google search suggests that these sites come up from misspelling the URL but that's not what's happened here.
Anyone else experienced this or have any ideas?
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Re: Visitors' Survey: Google
24-04-2013 1:50 PM
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- the DNS server settings on the computer
- the hosts file wherever that is on Windows (appears to be C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts on my Vista partition)
- proxy server settings
Something altering any one of those could interfere with web browsing, redirect you to other web sites etc.
Also note that Google uses https by default these days, so you should end up at https://www.google.co.uk/ , which is harder to interfere with because your web browser checks the SSL certificate.
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24-04-2013 2:06 PM
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The DNS is and has been set to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 for a very long time.
Set to use System Proxy both in FF and Control Panel-Internet Options (not sure yet how to check what that is actually set to).
Now what is strange is that the word Windows in your second bullet points was a hyper-link. Hovering the mouse over showed it to link to another thread with the community forums. Clicking on the link and it lead to one of several different sites including two survey sites again.
Now the hyper-link has gone but no message to indicate that you edited your post.
Edit; Hyper-link bay and hovering the mouse over I get Click to continue > by Smartsuggestor with the Community forum web link in the bottom left corner of FF. But clicking the link still brings up an erroneous page as before.
Edit 2: Something else... I cannot now double or triple click or even drag the mouse to highlight word(s) in the Google search box in FF but fine in other text boxes and within IE.
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Re: Visitors' Survey: Google
24-04-2013 2:24 PM
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24-04-2013 2:25 PM
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PS I have not met TDSS for a year or two. Last seen, its most obvious manifestation was if you ran a Google (or similar) search and clicked on one of the links you might find yourself whisked-off to a completely different web site than the one indicated in the search listing.
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24-04-2013 2:42 PM
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There was a Logmein addon update recently but that was last week.
But here's another strange thing... Running TDSSKiller from Kaspersky's site tells me there is a later version to download (Current version: 2.8.16.0 Actual version: 2.8.17.0). Clicking on Load update and a zip file is downloaded. Extracting that and clicking the new TDSSKiller.exe file brings up the same window and there we go round in circles! Clicking continue rather than update seems to work.
TDSSKIller which said it found 7 objects but no sign of anything being deleted just quarantined. A second run and no threats found.
Off to do a reboot now.
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Re: Visitors' Survey: Google
24-04-2013 2:54 PM
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Fingers crossed all is sorted (is there a fingers cross icon somewhere?).
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Re: Visitors' Survey: Google
24-04-2013 3:17 PM
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Re: Visitors' Survey: Google
24-04-2013 3:26 PM
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Running full scans now and will let you now the results later.
Thanks for all the help.
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Re: Visitors' Survey: Google
24-04-2013 3:47 PM
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Re: Visitors' Survey: Google
24-04-2013 5:26 PM
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All full scans completed (again) and no threats found. Meanwhile all seems quiet on the Western Front
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Re: Visitors' Survey: Google
24-04-2013 6:43 PM
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Remember I said some words appeared to act a bit like hyper-links and hovering over them displayed the message Click to continue > by Smartsuggestor? That is happening again but not all the time. Refreshing the page and the word(s) is/are no longer underlined and highlighted in blue.
I have searched everywhere for any reference to SmartSuggester on my PC but cannot find any trace of it so am stumped again
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Re: Visitors' Survey: Google
24-04-2013 7:35 PM
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The other thing to be concerned about, if it is something well hidden and nasty, is that you don't really know how long it's been there for. It may have only started making a visible nuisance of itself this morning, but it could have been hiding undetected for longer.
Re: Visitors' Survey: Google
24-04-2013 10:09 PM
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Re: Visitors' Survey: Google
24-04-2013 11:04 PM
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I'll give Hijack This a go tomorrow as it's a little later now and I prefer to be wide awake for this
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