Fix Uninitiated Google Redirects With GooredFix [Firefox]
Goored is an abbreviation for (malicious) Google Redirects although redirects have been noticed in other search engines like Yahoo as well. Firefox users who have been hit with a Goored infection will notice that some of their searches are redirected to other websites. This usually happens when they click on a search result in Google but might also happen without them doing anything (which means pages are opened automatically). The Google redirect seems to use the user's searches to redirect to other websites and it especially seems to happen often when searching for items that can be bought online like computer equipment, household items and basically anything that is sold online.
The cause of this search redirect in Google seems to be a Firefox add-on / plugin that gets installed without the user's consent and that does no appear in the list of installed add-ons / plugins. It is not clear how the add-on is installed other than that it is done automatically without the user's consent.
Goored is an abbreviation for (malicious) Google Redirects although redirects have been noticed in other search engines like Yahoo as well. Firefox users who have been hit with a Goored infection will notice that some of their searches are redirected to other websites. This usually happens when they click on a search result in Google but might also happen without them doing anything (which means pages are opened automatically). The Google redirect seems to use the user's searches to redirect to other websites and it especially seems to happen often when searching for items that can be bought online like computer equipment, household items and basically anything that is sold online.
The cause of this search redirect in Google seems to be a Firefox add-on / plugin that gets installed without the user's consent and that does no appear in the list of installed add-ons / plugins. It is not clear how the add-on is installed other than that it is done automatically without the user's consent.
