[email protected] wrote on 12/05/18 19:43:
On Friday, 11 May 2018 22:46:17 UTC+1, [email protected] wrote:
On Friday, 11 May 2018 22:44:27 UTC+1, [email protected] wrote:
On Friday, 11 May 2018 22:09:45 UTC+1, Paul in Houston, TX wrote:
[email protected] wrote:
Anybody any clues on how to get rid of this virus. It blocks access to the
google search engine, although it allows access to Bing. It started with
version 2.48 today on startup. I have updated to 2.49 but it still appears.
When one enters the google search engine url you get asked to identify various
pictures to make sure you are not a robot. However, it is never satisfied with
the answers and so you are excluded from accessing the search engine.
Any pointers to its eradication would be much appreciated.
Thanks
Roger
PS It does not affect Firefox or Edge browsers.
Sounds like a browser highjacker and not a virus.
Does starting SM with add-ons disabled make any difference?
Do you use a proxy?
What do adware scans like Malwarebytes, Adwcleaner, etc, show?
I used http://www.google.com and it is replaced by the url
http://ipv4.google.com/sorry/index?continue=http://www.google.com/%3Fhl%3Den&hl=en&q=EgRZ8w_6GLCY2NcFIhkA8aeDSycOov1rnFpdManh62LuwUAjCHW7MgFy
running malwarebytes and adware did not remove it. However, switching off the
router and turning it back on looked, at first, as though it had solved the
problem but after a little time this plague reappeared.
I don't use a proxy. I'm about to check the addons.
On checking the web I see a topic called the Google redirect virus. Anybody
ever dealt with it for the SM browser? Instructions are given for a number of
other browsers but not specfically SM.
rog, does that site give instruction for Firefox?? If so, the browser
used in SeaMonkey is almost the same as Firefox.
I think, in Firefox, the Preferences are found on the Options drop-down,
where as, in SeaMonkey, the Preferences are found on the Edit drop-down.
Alternately, in the SeaMonkey browser, enter "about:config" (without the
inverted commas) and search for the required preference.
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Daniel
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101
SeaMonkey/2.49.1 Build identifier: 20171016030418
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101
SeaMonkey/2.49.1 Build identifier: 20171015235623
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