New Malware Secretly Hijacks Web SearchesNew Malware Secretly Hijacks Web Searches

An new brand of malware secretly hijacks your searches in Google and other search engines.

Mike Elgan, Contributor

December 7, 2004

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An apparently new brand of malware secretly hijacks your searches in Google and other search engines.

If you run searches, and the top results are for other search engines, including RedZip and WebSearch, then you've got the SearchRelevancy malware program.

An executable on your system, SearchRelevancy.exe, is inserting bogus results in your searches that look just like the real thing.

You can get advice for fixing this at the following web sites.
SpyNet
Spyware Guide

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