I did a Hitman Pro scan and it found a massive amount of tracking cookies, but I have heard they aren't all that bad? I really hate the idea of any sort of infection, (in real life also!). I didn't download anything or click on anything so I couldn't be infected with anything that could potentially slow down my PC? Even if my PC were infected with something that would reduce my in game fps by 1 I would do a full wipe and reinstall everything, potentially even dispose of the hard drive for extra protection. I checked my DNS and it is stable and what it should be. However, for extra protection at the DNS level, you can always statistically assign your DNS settings to Norton ConnectSafe it's free. No, a re-installation shouldn't be necessary.įYI, I recommend using BitDefender AntiVirus Plus 2018. Should I do a fresh windows installation to be safe? I have misspelled 'outlook' loads of items and been redirected to plenty of strange website in the past? I also have plenty of anti-virus/malware. I haven't been redirected once since and have barely anything besides two programs on my PC ( a new windows install) and I never go on any strange sites. Thanks for the detailed answer, but I'm pretty sure that my computer isn't infected and it was just a one time occurrence. ru website presenting you with God only knows what. While CNN.com or itself is clean, it's that ad server that might attempt a URL redirection and off you go to some other. So, for example, going to CNN.com or might rotate an advertisement that's hosted on a server that got hacked. It's THOSE ad servers that get hacked, and serve malware. Some websites have their ads hosted via 3rd party services. Your browser's search settings have been modified to resolve searches through some other dubious search service.ĥ.

Your browser has some dubious search plug-in installed.Ĥ.

Windows IE Proxy settings have been set to redirect all website traffic to a public IP, which can only mean trouble.ģ. If you see some other public IP listed that you're not familiar with, let us know by responding what you find. Your DNS servers should be either your home router (same as default gateway), or the ones belonging to your ISP. To ensure DNS is pointed to where it's supposed to, from a command prompt, type 'IPCONFIG /ALL' (without quotes). I've personally seen this type of virus before. You network settings (NIC) in the system registry has a hard-coded set of DNS addressed to resolve all host names through a known malware site which re-writes the URLs to point to malware infected web servers. If you truely believe you typed in in correctly, the page re-direct could have occurred for several reasons:ġ.

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