Strange Google Search Results

[morestar]

Hi everyone.

Is it just me or are google's search results strange and out of wack on your end?
Right now when I do a search for any of my websites' keywords or just a general search I'm getting the stranges results.

on my end, doing a search for free dating sites (google.ca) usually brings up plentyoffish in the first spot and kisscafe on the second. Well, I'm seeing both those domains and the regular ones underneath them, with the same descriptions as usual too but the desitination URL is differnt. In the two cases above, the dest. URL is findstuff.com and sexsearch.com respectively.

I did searches with keywords for other sites of mine and found the same - that being, the title and descriptions are the same but the destination URLs aren't.

Maybe I should clear my cache but...

[aleishar]

Did you figure it out? Because I'm having the same problem. :/

[morestar]

yes i think i was hit with a virus
what are you seeing?

[aleishar]

I'm getting funky search urls...fine results but redirected to bad urls that are also listed under the search, i.e. if I searched for Barbie and Matel, I'd get the description of the website but maybe instead of the matel link I'd get a url for a weird forum site or something else...and all the links down the line would be the same. Can't search for a book, not anything.

[morestar]

well it must be a virus or something that we've caught...i downloaded zone alarm and that helped and since then it hasn't happened again so...

[morestar]

off topic, your name aleishar has the words he's a liar in it ; )

[aleishar]

he's a liar. rofl!!

funny anagram.

Well I will try zonealarm. Hope it works because I already have avast antivirus.

[morestar]

ok let me know cause i believe that's what stopped the issue on my end. zone alarm is a firewall but it comes with an anti virus for free for 30 days...

[wige]

Another one you might want to try is Comodo Firewall Pro. It is a free firewall that includes a system they call Defense + - not sure what that type of function is called, but it monitors the behavior of all applications as they run on the computer, and alerts you to suspicious behavior. The software does trigger a lot of warnings, so I don't usually run it unless I am looking for a virus or other malware.

On a related note, my father recently got a particularly aggressive virus (this one is generally referred to simply as the Antivirus 2009 virus, a form of scareware) and one of the things it did was change the links in Google SERPs. However, another thing it did was interfere in the download of anti-malware software. As this might be an indication of an infection, you might want to download the software on a clean computer, and burn it to CD, then install it on the possibly infected system from the CD.

As far as Avast, one thing that is common with viruses today is that they will neuter common antivirus applications. They may delete or corrupt the definitions file, or they may trick the antivirus software into downloding updates from their own server instead of from the antivirus company. This renders your antivirus software useless. The remedy for this is to fully uninstall your antivirus software, and reinstall it from a CD created on a clean computer. Additionally, you would want to burn the latest virus definitions file onto the same CD, and force the software to update from there instead of over the web.

[morestar]

great advice wige

[xuchunfeng1984]

i didnt come across this happen. so maybe you get virus for your laptop computer.

[shakir]

yes i think i was hit with a virus

. I never face like this problem and also I m wonder how virus can effect in SERP. Relay first time hearing about it

[D3niss3]

Originally Posted by shakir

. I never face like this problem and also I m wonder how virus can effect in SERP. Relay first time hearing about it

Wonder the same so I searched any articles regarding this and this is what I found:

http://news.softpedia.com/newsPDF/Oh...Live-72409.pdf

[Mikeantony]

Hey use some proper anti virus find there any virus or not. This is not happen with me ever but i eager to know how it happen. Is it virus or some thing else which affect your search result?