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Mac google redirecting virus

Willdta said:
you've made the claim that there are not viruses for mac currently in the wild,well can you back that up and prove to me and everyone else with facts beyond a reasonable doubt there are no active viruses.ill be waiting.
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You made the claim, that there are viruses for Mac OS X currently in the wild, well, can you back that up and prove to me and everyone else with facts beyond a reasonable doubt, that there are active viruses? We'll be waiting.


PS: It would be wide knowledge among the members of this forum*, if there were any. And I mean members who have been here since 2001 or 2005 or 2009.

* and of course the other other webpages Mac OS X users frequent, and many other pages where Windows users gather and tell others, that a Mac is not suitable. An exiting and current virus threat would be the "ultimate" weapon, if it weren't for the usability.
 
Willdta said:
you've made the claim that there are not viruses for mac currently in the wild,well can you back that up and prove to me and everyone else with facts beyond a reasonable doubt there are no active viruses.ill be waiting.
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Seriously? Did you not read a single thing he gave you? He did all the work for you! He cannot force you to comprehend.

At this point, you are either revealing abysmal comprehension difficulties, or you are emulating those difficulties deliberately.

GGJStudios fights the good fight, trying to help people understand the difference between a virus and any other form of malware. Just because you insist on calling a dog a bird, does not mean it can fly.
 
spinnerlys said:
You made the claim, that there are viruses for Mac OS X currently in the wild, well, can you back that up and prove to me and everyone else with facts beyond a reasonable doubt, that there are active viruses? We'll be waiting.


PS: It would be wide knowledge among the members of this forum*, if there were any. And I mean members who have been here since 2001 or 2005 or 2009.

* and of course the other other webpages Mac OS X users frequent, and many other pages where Windows users gather and tell others, that a Mac is not suitable. An exiting and current virus threat would be the "ultimate" weapon, if it weren't for the usability.
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he made the claim first so i would like to see his evidence first
 
Willdta said:
he made the claim first so i would like to see his evidence first
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Didn't yo make the claim, that there are viruses, first?
Or are you referring to GGJstudios' first post, which was a reply to someone, who thought s/he got a virus?

Just take a look at all the AV software for Mac OS X and read for what they are. They don't claim to be able to remove or detect any viruses for Mac OS X, trojans and spyware maybe, but not viruses.

If you can' be bothered to read the available information, which has been give to you more than once, why should we bother?
 
Willdta said:
you've made the claim that there are not viruses for mac currently in the wild,well can you back that up and prove to me and everyone else with facts beyond a reasonable doubt there are no active viruses.ill be waiting.
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Just a few (there are plenty others, but I'm sure you can use Google as well as anyone):
From Fortune.CNN.com:
There are, as far as we know, no Mac OS X viruses in the wild.
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From Cnet.com:
There are no known viruses in the wild that exploit a vulnerability in the Mac OS
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From Mac OS X: Viruses and Security on Symantec.com:
Simply put, at the time of writing this article, there are no file-infecting viruses that can infect Mac OS X.
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http://www.itd.umich.edu/itcsdocs/s4339/
While there are currently no viruses for Mac OS X in the wild
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http://www.tuaw.com/2010/06/03/dear-aunt-tuaw-should-i-buy-anti-virus-software-for-os-x/2
we've never heard of any Mac AV software that has caught an OS X virus
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I included some links to articles written as far back as 2006, which shows that not only are there no viruses in the wild that run on Mac OS X, there haven't been any for years.

Do Macs Need Anti-Virus Software? (accurate, easy-to-understand video from http://macmost.com)
Why are there no Mac viruses?
Willdta said:
send me your ichat id i would love o send you a little file of my own latestpics.tgz
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That's a trojan, not a virus.
http://www.macworld.com/article/49440/2006/02/oompa.html

In addition, try searching all anti-virus software websites (such as Symantec) for ANY virus definition that applies to current Leopard (10.5) or Snow Leopard (10.6). After you search, name one, just one virus (not a trojan, etc. which users can easily avoid with common sense) that runs on current Mac OS X. Just one!
 
Helz123 said:
I just rang apple care and the man on the phone said to me in plain English that I had a virus!
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Maybe you did. Your Mac didn't. (changed tense to match yours)

Willdta said:
you've made the claim that there are not viruses for mac currently in the wild,well can you back that up and prove to me and everyone else with facts beyond a reasonable doubt there are no active viruses.ill be waiting.
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Can you prove a negative? 🙄
 
Same problem here...

OK, I had to post because I am having the same problem as others here. Clicking on a google link redirects the browser to a different site. It happens the first time you click a link and not the next. It happens in both Safari and Firefox and not on any other comp in the network. I don't care what you want to call it and I am certainly not going to jump in the sandbox and waste time arguing syntax and terminology, but this is a real problem.

So, if anyone knows of how to fix this, I would appreciate hearing it. I have checked the DNS, checked the 'host' file and run MacScan and found nothing.

thanks
 
cxdogx07 said:
I was having the same problem with google. I deleted all my cookies, changed the settings to never allow, and calibrated my firewall settings. No more problems so far so this may be a quick fix for some. Hope it helps.

PS: cookies with a "com" extension are advertiser websites that google redirects to.

Ignore the quick fix....problem came back!!!!

Is anyone else with this problem getting redirected to wellaction and google-search-analytics as well? I am and I'm thinking it's not my Mac that's the problem it's a sorry *** router 🙁 Time to check DNS update if I figure it out. (Heard a rumor about a new router virus called the chuck norris virus that changes DNS Servers)
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This is the same thing happening to me. I don't care what it's called, I just want it gone 🙁
 
I had something similar happen on my laptop when I was staying at a friends for the weekend a couple of weeks ago. I was going to engadget and getting a completely different site (that I had never visited before) even though it said engadget in the address bar. I thought it must have been some weird cache issue at the time. I was using their internet connection. It's never happened before or since on my connection.

I found that quitting safari and launching it again fixed the problem...I can't remember if I was going to engadget from google or not though - I might have been.
 
Greetings from a pc

I think the problem may be on your router not your mac.

I was experiencing similar redirection on my two windows laptops. Forums describe a virus and tell how to get rid of it, but every scan shows I am clean.

So I checked my router. It had been hacked to use a DNS server in Russia. I corrected the settings and flushed my DNS caches (windows & browsers). The problem seems to have gone.

My guess is that I never had the virus, but my router was corrupted by a visitor's laptop which did have the virus.

Once the router is wrong, everything would get redirected, even a Mac or a clean pc. That would explain spiritlevel's experience - problems only when using his friend's connection.

Tentative suggestions:

1. Check your router's DNS settings
2. Give your router a secure password (the default is usually 'password')
3. Don't let a visiting windows laptop use your router until it shows a clean scan

Good luck
 
I've also been getting browser redirects - so far, always to myspace.com pages, and I don't otherwise use MySpace.com.

I do have an antivirus (iAntiVirus) installed, and have run it, but it hasn't found anything.

This first occurred a month or so ago. When I was trying to access my own Facebook page, I was redirected to MySpace. Rather than sending me to a specific MySpace page, it seemed to simply be replacing "facebook.com" with "myspace.com" in the URL. I couldn't find a way out of it so I shut it down and went to bed. The next morning, it was working normally.

This evening, I was in Google. Trying to move from page four of the search results to page 5 sent me, this time, to a specific MySpace page. Subsequently, everytime I have tried to access Google, I was redirected to the same MySpace page.

Changing browsers didn't correct the problem. However, when I switched from our DSL wireless connection to our cabled cable connection (we have both), the problem was gone.

I still don't know what the problem is, but it seems to be coming through the wireless connection, perhaps the router, as someone suggested here.

BTW, we do use a secure password on our router.

The first known computer virus was written for an Apple computer, btw.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elk_Cloner
 
its not a virus had the same problem it was my router had to switch it out, it would re direct me to the same weird website so call your IP and have switch your router....it will be a pain in the butt tho because they will not believe you and will say you have a virus....
 
Web Pages are Redirecting to MySpace?

sure seems like one.

Alot of times I use the internet, alot of times its facebook and google I try to go on. The link forwards me to mysapce. Someone sent me a link to a google image, it took me to some random persons myspace. I then tried googling something and it took me to another persons myspace. I try google.com and it takes me to myspace homepage. Pretty annoying!!!

It happens on every browser I try, Safari and Chrome. It DOES not happen on mozilla firefox. I really dont wanna switch browsers. This is pretty weird!

Any ideas? I havent downloaded and installed anything recently either.
 
Could be a cached DNS issue in the router. Rebooting the router can fix it sometimes. You can also use Terminal to flush OSX's DNS cache. Worst case scenario, there are trojans for Mac that have been known to attack the DNS, but you would have had to download something and entered your account credentials for it to have gotten in place.
 
My router? That seems very weird, wouldnt it affect all computers connected to it? and all web browsers?

Also, the problem comes and goes, as I was typing the post it was present, but now its gone. Should I flush the dns cache right now? Or wait until the problem returns?

EDIT: I guess it is the router. I had severe connectivity issues with my previous router, it was time to change. I bought a linsksys cisco wireless n router, (forget the model) and its been pure gold so far. I just confirmed with my sister and she gets the same issue on her computer with twitter and facebook, not google. I guess it is the router huh?

Will the dns cache clear be a permanent fix, no right?
 
TaylorJ said:
My router? That seems very weird, wouldnt it affect all computers connected to it? and all web browsers?

Also, the problem comes and goes, as I was typing the post it was present, but now its gone. Should I flush the dns cache right now? Or wait until the problem returns?
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Now is fine.

There have been other threads on this topic that I've seen. Off-hand I don't remember the resolutions, but you might want to see if you can track them down. The MRoogle link in my sig should help with that.
 
Wow this problem wont go away! I tried the dns flush. Nothing really happens. Its also happening to youtube now.

It DOES not happen to the main computer that is wired to the router, every other computer that runs wirelessly is experiencing this problem.

Anybody have ANY ideas?
 
I am having the same problem. I made a seperate thread about it before I found this thread. Sorry to bring it back up but this thread has alot more poeple involved in it. Has anyone found a solution other than switching out the router?

I brouight a brand new router about 2 months ago and its been perfect. I was switching from a crapped out router that would drop a connection every now and then. This router has been nothing but perfect except for this issue.

Google and facebook redirect to myspace and youtube redirects to some other website. Very, Very annoying.
 
"No personal computer exists in a vacuum. As elegantly designed as Macs are, a connected world means that their popularity attracts the attention of malware writers and virus engineers. Not only can malware and other threats attack the Mac OS X platform directly, but Macs can also serve as a carrier of Windows or Linux-based threats. Network shares, email and removable media like USB keys are easy ways for multiplatform malware to spread undetected. Additionally, third party applications which are not consistently patched and updated, are prime targets for hackers to gain control of user systems."

Give ESET NOD32 for Mac a try. It is currently free for the beta.

http://beta.eset.com/
 
GGJstudios said:
  1. Go to System Preferences > Network
  2. Select your network and click Advanced
  3. Click on DNS and tell us what you see there (or post a screen shot)
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3 things, greyed out. Two ip addresses which both look familiar to me. Under search domain it says phub.net.cable.<MYISPSNAME>.com
 
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