What Is Hijacker Spyware and How Do I Remove It?
by Joe
(Mayville, NY, USA)
Hello,
When I was doing a search in the Google search engine, I noticed that when I would click on some of the sites that were brought back in the search results...it would "jump" to a completely different page. This happened several times throughout the day.
I use Spybot Search and Destroy to clean up any spyware on my computer. I use Avast, AVG and Malwarebytes Anti-Malware. I usually run a scan every day to remove any spyware, adware or viruses. Typically, these scans come back with the basic spyware, but hardly ever any viruses.
However, the day I noticed that my search results were "jumping" to different pages/sites, these scans came back with some Trojan viruses and Spybot came back with a "Hijacker" spyware. The viruses have been contained and moved to the virus chest of Avast and the hijacker spyware has been contained as well. However, I've noticed that these have appeared in the scans for two days now. This tells me that they are still on my computer.
So, my question is...what exactly is a hijacker spyware and how do I remove it permanently? Also, can it access any of my personal information such as passwords, etc.?
Thank you for the help.
Joe
