Washington, July 22 (ANI): Internet giant Google has started warning over two million users that their computers are infected with a virus that redirects their browser searches.
The malicious software hijacks Google browser searches and redirects people to websites containing fake security programs that pay the scammers for traffic, The Daily Mail reports.
The affected computers will receive a yellow warning on the top of their Google search results page.
"Your computer appears to be infected. It appears your computer is infected with software that intercepts your connection to Google and other sites," ," the Google warning banner said.
Google said, the malware found its way onto computers via a fake anti-virus software.
"The malware appears to have gotten onto users' computers from one of roughly a hundred variants of fake anti-virus, or 'fake AV' software that has been in circulation for a while," security engineer Damian Menscher wrote on Google blog.
Google is now issuing instructions on how to remove the virus from computers, which have been affected by the virus. (ANI)
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