I'm usually pretty good with computers and take care of mine. However, I'm pretty sure I picked up a virus/trojan/SOMETHING?! that's messing with my computer, more specifically anything having to do with Google.
Yesterday I was trying to download a video that my boss had posted on YouTube like a year ago, so that I could post it on our Facebook. (I know that I could have just posted the link, but I wanted to have the video actually uploaded onto our Facebook Fan page). I had to get it off of YouTube because it was a year ago and she could not find the actual file of the video on her computer. I didn't know if this was possible but after a little searching, I found that there are some websites that allow you to download a video from YouTube to your harddrive. The site I used was on KeepVid.com. Admittedly, it looked a little sketchy...but I needed to do this, plus I had virus protection (or so I thought!) and I knew I would be in and out in a second. I downloaded it, and my anti-virus asked me if I wanted to allow access to something? I said no. The video downloaded and it worked fine, and my computer was working fine. Then last night, I go to my computer to video chat with my bf (using Gmail). I was logged into my work gmail account, so I went to switch to my personal so we could chat. When I logged out I got an error (I cant remember what it said) but now I can't get into gmail or many Google features.
When I go to gmail.com on Firefox I get this error:
Not Found
The requested URL /accounts/ServiceLogin was not found on this server.
Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) Server at
www.google.com Port 443
When I try it on IE, I get this error saying "There is a problem with this website's security certificate".
Some other things I've noticed:
When I use Google to search, the search results turn up fine, but sometime when I click on the link, it does not take me to the correct link. It forwards me to another sketchy looking search engine, and won't let me click backwards out of it.
Also, certain Google features won't work. For instance:
www.google.com/support just keeps me at google.com.
When I go to google.com, it shows that I am NOT logged into anything. But, if I click on "images" or "video", I notice that I'm suddenly logged into my work account again. (Because my name shows up in the top right). However, when I click "my account" or "mail" from there, I get the same error as when I tried to go straight to gmail.com.
I've run "Full Scans" on McAfee, Ad-Aware, and Malwarebytes. McAfee didn't find any problems, but Ad-Aware and Malwarebytes both found stuff and got rid of them. However, I'm still having the problem. I'm out of ideas. Does anyone out there know what's going on with this???
Thanks for reading my novel and I really appreciate any advice you guys give!
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