How to Remove Google Redirect Virus 2010-2011?

Google redirect virus is one of the mechanical disorders created in the computers, laptops which directly attack the users Google search main page, leaving the user to redirect and get into wrong malicious programs.

This annoying virus is specially promoted through Trojans like Msqpdxserv.sys; the virus is connected with online scam and websites which distribute other malware resulting in completely damaging your computer. It is very important to remove Google redirect virus from your computer as soon as it is detected. This virus has become very common in 2010-2011. It is very difficult to completely get rid of this virus from your computer.

Google redirect virus 2010-2011 is also known as browser hijacker. It completely removes the original main page of the web browser and does not allow the user to work on it. This in result redirects the user to move the web browser in the websites which are not required at all. This virus does not allow the user to use certain security tools and websites. A computer which is infected with annoying virus may display the advertisements which are not required by the user. This virus is capable of changing the HOSTS file.

Following steps needs to be followed in case you wish to remove Google redirect virus 2010-2011 from your PC. Manual removal of Google redirect virus consumes lot of time and one should possess a proper knowledge of the computer to perform the action properly.

• Go to start and select run. Then type regedit in the space and click ok.

• Delete all the required registry files.

• Now delete the DLL files. Go to start and select run. Then type cmd in the space and click ok.

• Then unregister all the DLL files which are not required. Finally delete them.

• You can also remove the Google redirect virus with the help of browser helper object.

• Follow the above mentioned step by step so that you can work on each of them thoroughly.

• After the computer is over with the performance of the removal procedure, clear your web browser main page and restart the computer.

• After reinstalling the computer now look for the results.

It is always advised to remove the Google redirect virus automatically because manual removal is very risky and may not remove the infection permanently. It is best to invest and get install a good spyware software or to run an anti-virus program in your computer.

Russian pres fumes at mystery DDoS hack

Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has denounced online vandals who launched an attack against the site that hosts his blog.

The denial of service assault on the LiveJournal site on Wednesday was both “outrageous and illegal” the Russian politician fumed after the assault, the BBC reports. “What has occurred should be examined by LiveJournal’s administration and law enforcement agencies,” he wrote.*

Novaya Gazeta, a newspaper critical of official government policies, was also hit a day later, on Thursday, as part of a wave of website-jamming attacks directed around the Russian interwebs this week. The paper is running a project to create an “online parliament” in order to create a venue where issues ignored by vested government or corporate interests can be debated and discussed. Novaya Gazeta reckons that this effort to create a forum of free speech is behind the attacks.

Whether the two attacks are linked remains unclear.

LiveJournal addresses associated with a popular anti-corruption blogger, Alexey Navalny, were reportedly the first to be targeted by denial of service attacks that first began on 24 March, according to a post on Kaspersky Lab’s SecureList blog. It reports the attacks are using the Optima/Darkness DDoS bot, currently all the rage on Russian language cybercrime forums. Who is being targeted – mostly political bloggers, although one furniture firm is on the list – is clear enough, as is how the attack took place. But why the attacks have been mounted, much less who exactly is behind them, remains unclear.

The other attacks might have been launched in order to draw attention away from the assault on the furniture firm, as Kaspersky analyst Maria Garnaeva notes. Alternatively, the attacks may have originated with anti-opposition cyber-militia, who then mistakenly attacked Medvedev’s blog.

In possibly related news, surfers attempting to reach the website of Russian football club Zenit St Petersburg were redirected to a site hosting complaints against local politicians instead earlier this week. We suspect CSKA Moscow fans for this assault, blamed by the club on a DNS records hack. But that’s just us.

Feds defend Twitter dragnet on WikiLeaks

Federal prosecutors on Friday defended their attempts to access the Twitter records of three WikiLeaks supporters, arguing their claims that the dragnet violates their constitutional rights should be rejected.

In a 19-page filing in federal court, prosecutors said a ruling issued last month should be upheld despite the claims by WikiLeaks supporters Jacob Appelbaum, Birgitta Jónsdóttir, and Rop Gonggrijp that it violates their right to free speech. The filing came in an ongoing criminal investigation into Julian Assange founder of the whistle-blower website.

The March 11 order approved the government’s request for IP addresses the supporters used to access Twitter between November 2009 and last December and the email addresses they gave when registering with the micro-blogging website. US Magistrate Judge Theresa Buchanan said there were no constitutional violations because the information sought didn’t involve the content of any of the Twitter subscribers’ communications. Federal prosecutors agreed.

“The subscribers’ claim that Twitter’s non-content records are subject to heightened protections under the First Amendment is baseless,” they wrote.

The information demand was made in a confidential filing in December under the US Stored Communications Act. The Twitter users also argued that the secrecy of the motion violated their Fourth Amendment right protecting them from unreasonable searches and seizures. The government later agreed to make public most of the court documents filed in their demand, but withheld revealing one document that Buchanan said would reveal “sensitive nonpublic facts, including the identity of targets and witnesses.”