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Yargh
Jan 12, 2008
ok.
I've done what I can, but I'm so lost, I don't know where else to get an answer.

New to Macs, OSX is Snow Leopard. Any browser I use, I have the same problem: New tabs open up, usually something like https://www.google-analytics.com which then redirects to mevio or wordslife or some poo poo. When searching on Google, hovering over a link (ex en.wikipedia.org) shows, at the bottom of Chrome, that it's not going to that path, but some line of jargon/redirect. I feel it's a trojan, but everything I've done doesn't help. And by "done", I mean "cleared DNS and ran that trojan finder App".

I kind of have no idea what's going on; help please?

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Yargh
Jan 12, 2008
ok.

FCKGW posted:

From some Googling, it looks like you may be one of the lucky few who have a trojan on your system, specifically Trojan.OSX.DNSChanger.B.

What "trojan finder app" did you run? Was it legit?
You can try downloading some removal software like http://www.iantivirus.com (site is run by pctools/symantec) or the DNSChanger removal tool.

Let me know if that finds anything, I'm kinda curious to what bug you have.

See, I thought that was my problem, but both things you linked to found nothing. The "tojan finder app" I ran originally was the second link. The instances of new tabs has slowed, but they still crop up once or twice an hour. Thank you for iAntiVirus, will try that.

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