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Subject: my computer

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Rick

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Date Posted: Tuesday, May 25, 11:34:52pm

I know what the problem is. Google 'google redirect virus' sometime. I have no idea how I got it but it is a nasty little bastard.

Google redirect allows you to go to google but when you type in a search, it takes you either someplace totally different, doesn't go anywhere at all or takes you to a blank page.
There are all kinds of fixes for it. The problem is, the one I got is a little different. I downloaded and installed firefox and attempted to use bing as a search engine and the same thing happened. I just spent the last 4 hours with a computer genius and his equally smart wife. She had said to me last night, "Come over at 7. You'll be fixed up by 7:15" That didn't happen. They ran 14 different virus checkers and every one of them failed to find it. It is running somewhere in the background and one thing we do know is, it keeps at least 4 google's open and three Internet Explorers open at the same time. You can shut them down but within a second or two they are back on.

Mike fixes these things for a living and he checked every database he could think of and so far this exact virus has no fix.

Thankfully, since my last computer problem, we had installed a second hard drive and I have been saving everything to it. all thats on my c drive are programs. Photoshop and stuff like that, for which I have all of the cd's. So as we speak, my computer is having its hard drive wiped out. Tomorrow they are re-installing everything. Once they do that, that computer will never again be connected to the internet. Right now I am using an old machine I had in my closet. I'll uninstall everything like PS and stuff from it to make it run a little quicker. but this will be the only one I use for the internet now.

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