Best guess: a rootkit, a form of malware that can hide itself from normal methods of detection. Kaspersky TDSSKiller removes TDSS and other tenacious rootkits.Because it was happening in both browsers, I knew there was a deeper problem than just a rogue plug-in or toolbar. That’s hijacking in a nutshell, and it’s extremely frustrating. Whenever I’d click a link in Internet Explorer or Firefox (the latest versions of both, FYI), some malicious bit of code would redirect the browser to a phishing site. Even after running utilities like Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, then using UnHide to restore the system’s missing icons and folders, something was hijacking the Web browsers.
Recently I spent some time rescuing my sister-in-law’s laptop from some seriously nasty malware.
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