That changes all my google/yahoo/search enginge results into links to malicious websites. I have tried doing a system restore, but instead of going through with the restore it just restarts my computer (I'm assuming this is an affect of the virus) without doing the restore. I have also tried ad-aware and spybot S&D to no avail. If any of you can help it would be greatly appreciated.

Anti Spyware apps specialize in Spyware ;)

Do you have any AV? Try running something and see if it picks it up. If not just format your drives and fresh install.

Edit: Also try a "system restore" in safe-mode.

The first step in eliminating a virus is to determine which one you have. I'm assuming its a Rogue, so I'll detail the steps I took to eliminate another Rogue Trojan, a real pain in the ass, Virtumonde:

Get an AV. Download SuperAntiSpyware and HiJackThis.

Disable your internet connection.

For the time being, disable Spybot's Tea Timer function. It may interfere with scans.

Run HijackThis and eliminate harmful/suspicious hidden processes. These will most likely be attaching themselves to RunDll32.

Run a full system scan with your AV.

Do a full system scan with SAS, remove harmful files. Set SAS to do a quick scan on startup. Reboot immediately. Allow SAS to run, elimintating files that could not be deleted on initial scan.

If you've noticed a serious decrease in your internet speed, you can run winsockfix in attempt to boost it back up.

If you've got Virtumonde, there's a chance you might have to edit your registry files. DO NOT edit your registry until you've researched exactly how to do it.

EDIT: There is also a tool called VundoFix, an AV/AntiSpyware program that is specifically designed to kill Virtumonde. Its got varying results.

GNU/Linux: no fucking viruses. (http://gnewsense.org)

Besides being a cult, there's other reasons why GNU/Linux sucks

Besides being a cult, there's other reasons why GNU/Linux sucks

Oh, does that include viruses?

No. It doesn't.

Besides being a cult, there's other reasons why GNU/Linux sucks

Still waiting on a response in the anonymity thread, by the way.

Oh, does that include viruses?

No. It doesn't.

GNU/Linux isn't malware free, you're the typical Linux fan boy preaching his false sense of security to everyone.

GNU/Linux isn't malware free, you're the typical Linux fan boy preaching his false sense of security to everyone.
You have never heard of OpenBSD.

GNU/Linux isn't malware free, you're the typical Linux fan boy preaching his false sense of security to everyone.

Link to a GNU/Linux virus. Do it. Prove me wrong, punk.

Link to a GNU/Linux virus. Do it. Prove me wrong, punk.

I'm not sure what you are asking. There's no technical reason why someone wouldn't be able to write a GNU/Linux virus

I'm not sure what you are asking. There's no technical reason why someone wouldn't be able to write a GNU/Linux virus

What part of link me to a virus for GNU/Linux did you not understand?

I'm not sure what you are asking. There's no technical reason why someone wouldn't be able to write a GNU/Linux virus

In a way, there is. System files are unreachable for a regular user (or, a virus) by default. So a virus could only do a little bit of harm. This isn't the case in Windows, or mac...I think? I dunno about mac.

In a way, there is. System files are unreachable for a regular user (or, a virus) by default. So a virus could only do a little bit of harm. This isn't the case in Windows, or mac...I think? I dunno about mac.

No, Apple's OS X is based off of FreeBSD, which has a good UNIX security model, like GNU/Linux does. That's the real strength, not "market share".

In a way, there is. System files are unreachable for a regular user (or, a virus) by default. So a virus could only do a little bit of harm. This isn't the case in Windows, or mac...I think? I dunno about mac.

Dude, on most installs you can execute files without needing root priviliedges.
And it depends on your definition of harm, if you can run an executable you can DOS.
Some form of malware does not need root to do it's job, or even propagate itself.

The typicall replicate itself virus will have a hard time on most *nix systems, though.

Link to a GNU/Linux virus. Do it. Prove me wrong, punk.

http://www.viruslist.com/en/viruslist.html?id=48280

^ Here.

http://www.viruslist.com/en/viruslist.html?id=48280

^ Here.

"Classic viruses" don't count.

Note also how that only infects files in the current directory (read: no system files, probably no files at all).