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Browser is being Hijacked

sarrah_bastet · 2009-09-20T01:16:18+00:00

First of all, I need to say I am using a wireless router, but this computer is plugged physically into it. (I noticed the instructions said the helper would need to know if we had a router or not.) What's happening: When I do a search using the google search engine on my firefox browser, sometimes when I click what looks to be a legitimate link (foodnetwork.com for example) sometimes it will take me to a site that says my computer is infected and the site says it's running a scan. There is a pop up window that wants me to click it to take me to a site to download a virus cleaner. I have never clicked on the pop up window. I have always gone to task manager and killed firefox in the process window so I don't have to click anything that has been presented by the hijack. I've quit searching on firefox since that seemed to be the only browser it happened on--but then it happened once on Chrome too, but Norton's didn't pop up the one time it happened on Chrome. Since that one time it happen