Ok so this is a problem with all of my browsers, first i noticed than when trying to enter any google sites i would get stopped by a privacy security warning and no browser would allow me to go on no matter what. After a sweep of Malwarebytes i found out i had redirection malware and promptly quarentined it, restarted pc and tried again, but all my browsers are still not letting me google anything (or accesing google maps or gmail). My guess is that even if the malware is gone, the redirection settings are still saved somewhere. But at least cleaning cache and such didn't help...

Since i almost only use Opera i decided to ask here if anyone can help, since this is getting really annoying to deal with and this is as far i can go on my own knowlwdge.

@blackbird71 said in Malware redirects all my google searchs:

@jeremycards said in Malware redirects all my google searchs:

... I could find the file but it seems to only have the commented section with the # symbols before it... So there's not much to modify

In that case, your hosts file is essentially "generic"... that is, it hasn't been modified from the original, hence it's not the source of your malware redirection. In some malware cases, the malware writes redirection lines into the hosts file, but apparently not in your situation. The cause of the redirections lies elsewhere.

Seems that way, and to make matters worse, this issue is also blocking capcha from some sites, making me unable to log in... I think i'll bite the bullet and format my pc, havent done one in years and problems are starting to pile up

Thanks for your help anyway!

@blackbird71 Thanks! I could find the file but it seems to only have the commented section with the # symbols before it... So there's not much to modify

@sgunhouse Alright, will try to hunt it down when i get home, i guess sorting files by date modified should make it easy enough. Thanks for the info!

@sgunhouse any idea what the syntaxis could be?

@sgunhouse Not familiar with it, but it sounds like that's the case since i read that mentioned in the explanations from the error... Any idea how to undo that?

Ok so this is a problem with all of my browsers, first i noticed than when trying to enter any google sites i would get stopped by a privacy security warning and no browser would allow me to go on no matter what. After a sweep of Malwarebytes i found out i had redirection malware and promptly quarentined it, restarted pc and tried again, but all my browsers are still not letting me google anything (or accesing google maps or gmail). My guess is that even if the malware is gone, the redirection settings are still saved somewhere. But at least cleaning cache and such didn't help...

Since i almost only use Opera i decided to ask here if anyone can help, since this is getting really annoying to deal with and this is as far i can go on my own knowlwdge.