Well the next day I don’t even bother turning on my router, just dig into the comp looking for weirdness. I spend the next three hours trying to win control back of my router to no avail so I give up for the night and unplug/power down everything. I reset my router network and sign in as admin and when I get in I notice all kinds of messed up settings letting them control it remotely and all that fun stuff. I try to kick them out but they are sorted as Network Infrastructure and I can’t do anything. Next day I was just messing around on the computer, I turned on network discovery and lo and behold, there’s a completely unknown router on my WiFi. I downloaded all the standard removal stuff and use it and while 0 threats were found in Malwarebytes and Rkill and all the others, my comp did seem to improve. Sure enough they don’t match and I start googling how to get rid of redirect viruses. So I jump on my other computer and compare results. Lots of SEO optimizing, reach the front page type results. Instead of the usual results prioritizing big name sites, I started seeing lots of the same obscure sites repeatedly on the front page despite barely relating to my queries. So basically around 3 or 4 days ago I noticed my google results were off. I think I caught it early by sheer luck but I still think my pc might be screwed. ![]() I have a Dell XPS 13 laptop which I believe became infected sometime in the past week. So I’m not the most tech savvy or experienced when it comes to these things.
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