google hijacker, malware?

Discussion in 'Malware Help - MG (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by light bird, Feb 23, 2008.

  1. light bird

    light bird Private E-2

    Hi,

    I have had google saved to my firefox bookmark bar for the last year (since I got my laptop). Now all of a sudden when I click on it, it sends me to google.de instead of google.com. If I hightlight .de and type .com, or type in the whole address, soon I hit enter it reappears as google.de.

    I know this is naive, but I have a mac, I thought I wasn't supposed to get bugs!!??

    I have emailed google, but of course they are not responding. I can't find anything else weird at the moment, but am worried about a bigger underlying problem, or my info being unsafe.

    Can anyone HELP!???

    Thanks!!
     
    light bird, Feb 23, 2008
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  2. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    Welcome to Major Geeks!

    I'm sorry but this is not a MAC help forum. This is for PCs. You could try posting in the Software Forum or your could go to the MAC forum here: http://forums.majorgeeks.com/forumdisplay.php?f=40 where you will find a few more MAC users. Your problem may not even be malware. It sounds like what we (in the PC world) would call a hosts file setting has been changed. I would assume a MAC would also have a hosts file.
     
    chaslang, Feb 23, 2008
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