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Yes, I even tried booting into safe mode and disabling any services/startups related to the AV currently installed (Avira & MABM). Tried running Defogger. Made sure Combofix.exe program was run off the desktop.
Current state of play:
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Links in google are not currently arriving at the wrong web page. I’ll try to test this more extensively.
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Google search is acting weird. When I type my search words and press enter or click the search button sometimes it does nothing. It especially doesn’t seem to like the enter key. Yahoo search works fine.
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If I click a link in google search results, then go back to the search results, when I hover the visited link in search results page I see weird indirect links through doubleclick.net. I can’t recall seeing this behaviour before e.g.
http://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/nclk?sa=L&ai=1&u=http://www.virtuallythere.com/
On the other computer which I’m using to type this note I get similar but different behaviour. The prefix on the link starts “http://www.google.com.au” i.e not via doubleclick
Further weirdness: On the infected computer I get the same result searching google.com and google.com.au
On this computer I’m typing on which I’m starting to be less confident about, the link swapping behaviour seemingly only happens if I use google.com.au.