I've become infected somehow. Seriously infected.
Despite having AVG antivirus running.
Links in Chrome take me to random places.
Google search when clicking on links takes me to ad spam search sites or gives me redirects or broken links. Typing directly into address bar works, though only sometimes.
Exact same problems occur in both IE and Chrome.
The worst part of the infection is that I cannot update any definition files for any spyware program I'm attempting to install and run to disinfect. I'm blocked from all update servers it seems.
Thusfar I've attempted Ad Aware, Spybot Search and Destroy, Malbytes Anti-Malware and Housecaller. All fail to update with latest definition file; effectively rendering them useless.
Attempting to access tech forums on this problem throws up a broken link so that I cannot even get fucking tech help.
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AVG is up to date, but full scan picks up nothing.
Comodo registry cleaner is up to date and picked up a few odds and sods but not this problem.
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Am at a loss.
Reformat is a huuuuuuuuuuuge hassle and I really do not have the time.