cheaphost: How do i delete a redirected host file, its a virus.?

Friday, April 17, 2009

How do i delete a redirected host file, its a virus.?

Sometime last week my computer got this virus.Now every three seconds something pops things like advertisements for security companies and what not....also my trend micro pc-cillin keeps popping up with viruses and i delete and more come...i ran adaware and it found a redirected host file but when i hit delete nothing happens....please help.i have a dell inspiron E1505

It is a type of adware call browser hijacker.

Install Spybot search and destroy, which is the best free anti-spyware tool.

Update spybot's spyware database and do a scan on your hard drive.

Remove spyware/adware/trojans that are found

Immunise your system against future infection.

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html

Enable the advance features and use Spybot host file locking, which is a tool that locks the hosts file to prevent unauthorized changes.

Use the following free programs, download, install, update , and scan .

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware:

http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php

Select Full Scan.

Remove all infections that it finds after scan.