Google has been spamatized...

[Kanjika]

And what I mean by that is that it brings up fake results.

I recently had a lot of adware/crap on my PC and got rid of all of it, including my virus programs because all of it is 100% bullshit. The problems have all gone away and my PC runs just fine, but theres one thing that I can't seem to fix or find help on, and that is Google being all screwed up. Whenever I search, I get a bunch of ad sites and fake pages. Google UK works perfectly though, so i'm stuck using that, but it's annoying how all the sites it brings up are UK related, since I don't live in the UK (i'm talking mostly shopping online here). I also can no longer sign into Gmail....

Does anyone have any idea what the hell has happened? Any help is very much appriciated.

[Kanthos]

You sure you got rid of it all? Google US and Canada seem fine to me.

[Kanjika]

You sure you got rid of it all? Google US and Canada seem fine to me.

This is only on my PC :-P. And no I obviously left something because this is happening. I need to figure out what.

[Schwaltzvald]

a couple of things...

One choice, which is usually reserved as a last resort, is a complete format of your hard drive. reinstalling windows and everything else you had...

Next, you probably have a hijacker/trojan that is residing deep within the bowels of your pc that is giving you a hard time. so programs that deal with trojan/hijacker termination is a must here...

This could be the reason why anti-virus would be ineffective as its not dealing with virii persay... anti-spyware apps usually helps but not as effective against trojans as it usually gets rid of a major bug, but not where the god damn critter keeps regenerating. Kind of like attacking Cell and only leaving a hand or foot behind for it to regenerate all over again to give you grief...

Personally I tend to rely on AVG for my anti-virus/spyware needs
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/5390/us/frt/0

rarely do I get a trojan problem, but when ever I do I usually go for
Trojanhunter --> http://www.misec.net/

for a free variation --> http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/