Beware of Luckysearch.com

[GJH]

Doing a search for some information I clicked on a bad link by mistake and, even though I tried to stop it, ended up installing malware. The main problem was a Browser Redirect search engine called Luckysearch.com.

Malwarebytes didn't get rid of it completely (only some parts) and neither did Superantispyware or going through Startup programs/links. Happily, Lunarman had posted a link to Adwcleaner Broken Link Removed a couple of weeks ago and that knocked it on the head.

Took several hours waiting for the various scans to execute though.

 

[Deleted member 29692]

Lucky you had it already installed as well. A lot of those browser redirect things stop you downloading anything that might get rid of them.

 

[GJH]

Lucky you had it already installed as well. A lot of those browser redirect things stop you downloading anything that might get rid of them.

Yes, indeed.

In the past I've had to download software on a different machine and copy it to a memory stick to install it on the infected machine. OK if one has more than one machine in the house but not otherwise. It certainly pays to have a number of such programs pre-installed.