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Virus/Spyware/Malware redirecting links on google.com and I can not get rid of it.

Asked by james_axton in Anti-Virus, Avast Anti-Virus Software, HijackThis Software

Tags: virus spyware malware redirect

This has completely defeated me, and I am _not_ a novice at this.  I got a strain of Vundo from a website and successfully removed it as I've done many many times before.  This time however the strain has left a redirect issue with links in Google searches.  The redirects go to sites like Shopica.com and Toseeka.com.  The computer in question is XP Pro SP3 fully patched.  System restore is off.  The browser is Firefox; I do not use IE.  I've run the following programs with absolutely no success:

- Avast, full scan, found nothing
- AVG, full scan, found nothing
- HijackThis, all entries are _perfect_, you'll have to take my word that I know what I'm looking at
- Spybot, found nothing but cookies, removed and rescanned and got a clean bill of health
- Malwarebytes, quick and full scans both found nothing
- SuperAntiSpyware, found many cookie files, all removed, rescanned and found nothing
- VundoFix, found 0 files
- Smitfraudfix ran with no findings
- Fixwareout.exe ran with no abnormal changes

All applications listed above are their most recent versions with updated signatures.  I've also tried "ipconfig /flushdns" to no avail.  The hosts file is clean.  There is nothing in the DNS area of the TCP/IP properties.  There are no abnormal files in the system32 directory (and even if there were, Hijackthis would have pointed at calls to them).

As you can see that's fairly thorough IMO, but the redirects keep occurring.  Can someone recommend anything that I may have missed?  I'm eager to learn yet another trick to help get rid of this trojan when it pops up.  Thanks everyone,

James
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