Help with a Redirect Virus

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#11  
After some more research: Looks like VigLink is redirecting to emjcd .com , 'Commission Junction' - a site that offers you 'valuable coupons' to download.

Herdprotect Anti-malware (whoever that is) declares that emjcd downloads malware.

This might explain why my ISP blocks the (redirected) link that should have gone from here to HF.
 
   / Help with a Redirect Virus #12  
These things can be a bear to resolve. Usually Malwarebytes and Superantispyware do the job with tons of reboots in the process. You can check the add-ons section of firefox to see if something was added that shouldn't be there. My FIL was getting these things all the time until I made it so software couldn't be added without putting in a system password. I didn't tell him the password...lol.

BTW, sometimes you have to run windows with minimal programs running for Malwarebytes to clean properly, usually through safemode.

As for Fonts, find the fonts folder on another PC and copy them all to a flash drive then dump them on the other PC. Usually it's in the Windows/fonts folder

Good luck.
 
   / Help with a Redirect Virus #13  
Did you try a system restore to a point before you were having this problem with redirects?
 
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#14  
I was going to do the System Restore next but ran out of time. It is definitely in my list of tools I'm going to throw at it.

KubotaNH thanks for the suggestion for restoring fonts. I'll do that. Yes, I'm running all diagnostics in safe mode and with nothing else running.

It baffles me that IE which I never use, exhibited the same behavior.

When I get back to the home pc I'll try everything that is suggested in this tread.
 
   / Help with a Redirect Virus #15  
I was going to do the System Restore next but ran out of time. It is definitely in my list of tools I'm going to throw at it.
KubotaNH thanks for the suggestion for restoring fonts. I'll do that. Yes, I'm running all diagnostics in safe mode and with nothing else running.
It baffles me that IE which I never use, exhibited the same behavior.
When I get back to the home pc I'll try everything that is suggested in this tread.
It is probbaly an addon or toolbar in firefox that is causing this then.
Try creating a new profile (directions here) and see if it happens there.

Aaron Z
 
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Thanks for that link. My Firefox profile probably dates clear back to Netscape/dos, long overdue for a cleanup. I'll try that.

I'm sure I'm not running added toolbars. Addons are plain vanilla and no new ones recently. But it is possible that a update claimed to be for one of them wasn't legitimate.

I may also purge/replace Firefox after saving a cleaned-up version of the profile.
 
   / Help with a Redirect Virus #17  
Not to keep beating a dead horse, but the beauty of system restore is you would have been done 10 minutes after you pushed the button instead of doing all the things you did. I know you want to know what's causing it, so you need to take some actions that take your time. But in a production environment, if we can't fix it in just a few minutes, we restore the machine either to a point in time before the problem happened or we just clone a new image onto it.

Of course, that's assuming your restore points aren't infected. :rolleyes:
 
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But I need to know! :)

Agreed, in a production environment just roll it back to known-good and get on with life. But now I'm retired and have the time to pursue my curiosity. Partly so I don't create this problem again.

I have system restore points over the past two years and the changed behavior is recent, so no problem there.

As for a Firefox profile: if necessary I can copy the (uninfected) profile from this ranch laptop I'm using now, into the PIA home desktop.
 
   / Help with a Redirect Virus #19  
But I need to know! :)

Agreed, in a production environment just roll it back to known-good and get on with life. But now I'm retired and have the time to pursue my curiosity. Partly so I don't create this problem again.

I have system restore points over the past two years and the changed behavior is recent, so no problem there.

As for a Firefox profile: if necessary I can copy the (uninfected) profile from this ranch laptop I'm using now, into the PIA home desktop.

Just remember that curiosity killed the cat! :laughing:

Hope you find it. :thumbsup:
 
   / Help with a Redirect Virus #20  
Viruses and malware drive me nuts. I manage to get one about once a year, usually after forgetting that the Aholes that run shareware sites often allow unwanted taskbars etc to be installed simultaneously. My solution has typically been to run Malwarebytes, reinstall Avast (my antivirus), and if that fails to just do a system restore. Once I gave up and bought a new computer.

I'd love to capture some of these virus/malware hackers and turn them over to ISIS.

Myself included but i'd want to water board them with turpentine. Might clear up some of their geek acne. It was the predominant reason I gave up and 4 years ago bought a Mac. In 4 years, have never had a wit of a problem with this sort of crap. (watch, because I just haunted myself, I'll get whacked tomorrow with some trojan, virus or malware)
 

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