networking - All browsers redirect me to the wrong site

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2014-07
  • colix

    I'm trying to reach www.example.com, but I'm always get redirect by all browsers to www.anothersite.com (from any other computer www.example.com is perfectly reachable), which most likely a virus, although my antivirus can't catch it.

    I already checked hosts file, there is nothing in it, is there anything else I can do to figure out the problem?

    P.S. And it happens only with "example.com" (visiting other sites does not redirect)

    Edit

    The site in question is siliconrus.com
    On my machine, it redirects to top-shop.ru, but this forwarding does not occur for other people.

    The same issues persists in safe mode.

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  • Dave Rook

    Edit 2

    Based upon your comments, I think this may be malware and not a virus - use MalwareBytes and perform a scan

    EDIT

    As per your edit, since it only happens with one site, then it's that 1 site. They have put a forwarder on I assume.

    Original answer below

    I think you should start the browser in safe mode because this disables all plug ins which is most likely cause (assuming it's not a virus as per your virus check)

    If it works fine in safe mode, you need to start bringing the plugins in, one at a time to find the culprit.


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  • Lukasz Baran

    Maybe it is not a problem with your computer but your ISP. I mean, the gateway which connects you to the internet, because it happens on both your machines and it is happening on different browsers.

    However, this question does not seem to be related to programming.