Nasty redirect virus in the UK

Very nasty indeed!

When one do a google search and clicks on one of the results instead of directing to the clicked website it will take you to a link farm site. Which has nothing but links to other websites.

I am sure Google or the ISP (Internet Service Provider) are the ones making money off of these or else why would it happen in the search results.

This is definitely not a virus on the computer. This virus is residing in the router. I just did a fresh install on a formatted drive of xp and also windows7 on a computer and in both cases as soon as I went on the web and did a search, I was  redirected to one of these link farm sites.

Might be coming from the ISP service company which is in my case Virgin Media and they are known for screwing customers for every penny they can squeeze out of them and I would not be surprised if they are getting big money for all these redirection of traffic. Click fraud  I think.

You can run any kinds of virus programs and it won’t do any good because it is a router virus.

So you can try this to get rid of this nastiness.

Reset your router with a pin or the reset button to factory default settings than go to DOS and type in at the C: prompt ipconfig/flushdns and it should clear the virus out.

Make sure you are in drive C and not in a directory

go to Start/Run and type in CMD and that’s your DOS make sure this is what it shows C:\> this is what it looks like after you type in  C:\>ipconfig/flushdns

than you hit the return key and it will flush your router clean. There is no guarantee  the virus won’t come back but if it does you can do it again. This worked for me and right now it looks alright. The computer is faster too.

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