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Re: Odd type of malware?

Subject: Re: Odd type of malware?
From: "fred-bloggs" <fred-bloggs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 31 Mar 2006 12:39:12 GMT
Newsgroups: 24hoursupport.helpdesk
"Tanel Kagan" <tanelkagan@(nospam)hotmail.com> wrote in
news:2bednQ47z_NkjLDZRVnyrQ@xxxxxx: 

> Recently I have been suffering a problem in that when I click on
> Google search results, the response is slow and then I will be
> redirected to a page with something like "searchgetfound.com" in the
> URL. 
> 
> If I click the link repeatedly, I will "get through" and hit the
> correct page.
> 
> I don't have a problem once I reach a page, and all subsequent links
> work fine, and also if I type in a URL into the address bar of
> internet explorer I have no problem either.
> 
> It seems the only effect is to slow down and redirect clicks to Google
> search results.
> 
> I have run the usual Spybot, Ad-Aware and Microsoft Anti-Spyware tools
> etc, and they have not picked up anything new.
> 
> Does anyone know anything about "searchgetfound.com" and how I might
> be able to remove it?
> 

Do you mean SearchSeekFind?
http://www.spy-buster.com/spyware-database/SearchSeekFind-spyware.htm

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fred

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