By: Lance Ulanoff, PC Magazine
When things go terribly wrong with technology, you may have to go that extra mile to find the right answers. I’ve been having a rough couple of technology months. First, my test system gets attacked by powerful malware that forced me to rebuild the laptop from scratch and then, just this past week, my family’s desktop PC went bonkers (yes, that’s the technical term). The laptop drama was a bit more straightforward. I’d been using this Windows 7 test system for over a year and hadn’t bothered to put any security software on it. It had never had an infection or a hiccup; Windows 7’s own baseline defenses seemed to be doing just fine. Then one day, pretty much out of the blue, my search results started acting like they were possessed. I’d perform a search on Google or Bing, click on the desired result and end up somewhere else. It was never something objectionably like adult material, weird photos or even incessant pop-ups. Instead it was just a site, which vaguely related to the original search, trying to sell me something.
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