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Do I have an IP Virus?
I accidentally clicked on a link to this one video hosted off youtube. It told me I needed to download Adobe to view it, so I downloaded setup.exe. Now, when I try to access my network settings, my IP address is no longer 192.168.1.1, it's 68.60.120.217, which is the location of that video. I tried googling how to reset the IP address, and the results show up normally, but the links take me to a site called http://ix-find.com/?q=Reset%20network%20ip. Not sure if that's related, just thought I'd throw it in there. I tried resetting my IP address by using ipconfig/release and /renew, but that didn't work. Please help.
3 Answers
- MuckdoomeeLv 61 decade agoFavorite Answer
See this link from WOT. It may or not be related but be careful as there are fake YouTube pages out there and they ask you to install a fake flash update
http://www.mywot.com/en/forum/3704-fraudulent-sear...
There are fake YouTube pages that can install malware by user intervention. Normally, you can tell that something is up when an error message prompting you to download a codec or a flash update. These are the tell-tale signs of something is afoot. Don't click on it to install and you're still safe up to that point.
http://blog.trendmicro.com/a-new-youtube-malware-t...
Try Malwarebytes and it's free to use. Close your running programs before installing. Make sure that it has the latest updates and run quick scan in normal Windows. You may be prompted to reboot, do so if it asked you.
- Miha LLv 71 decade ago
You may be infected with malware. Antivirus mostly do not help here.
I have very positive experience with Smithfraudfix tool that help in 99% situation.
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It is really great tool and i'm sure that will clean your PC from malwares.
- 1 decade ago
Perhaps you can consider OpenDNS, its a free content filtering service but it also automatically detects your dns for malware infections (notably conficker)
Aside from that, throw in the usual scans with your antivirus and manual scanners (superantispyware, malwarebyte anti-malware)
