Trouble 1 :

Whenever I am trying to format my Pen-drive it keeps showing that windows was
unable to complete the format. – Amal

Fix:

There are several possible reason for which this problem appears. We have already covered it in our article : Problem in formatting pen drive

Trouble 2 :

I get this error with windows media player – Windows Media Player cannot play the file because there is a problem with your sound  device. There may not be a sound device installed on your computer, it may be in use by another program, or it may not be functioning properly. – Noker

Fix:

This problem usually occurs due to sound driver issues or some missing audio/video codecs.

For Codecs related problem, see our article: Cannot Play Video Files In Media player

For Sound Driver realted issues, see this article: Audio not working or Problem with sound in Windows

Trouble 3 :

I downloaded firmware for my Netgear router. It was a .chk file which the router would not accept.  – Tim

Fix:

There is a known bug in some of the Netgear routers (including the one I am using) that it will not accept the .chk file using Mozilla Firefox. You can use the same file to upgrade the firmware using Microsoft Internet Explorer. It worked for my router.

Trouble 4 :

I ran the software to remove the WGA notification,it said it was not on my system however, it keeps appearing just as windows opens.How do I get rid of it?  – Tim

Fix:

You can suppress the WGA notification, but this won’t solve the problem. Get the copy of Windows Registered properly to get rid of this warning. Here is a tool for suppressing the warning : How To Remove Windows Is Not Genuine Notification

Trouble 5 :

I cant access any Antivirus Website & Microsoft website. Page Can not be displayed error indicates. – Rajoo

Fix:

Not being able to open antivirus websites is a symptopm of virus which is preventing access to search engines and anti-virus update sites so that the virus can protect itself. We have written the solution to the same in our article : Remove Virus Which Redirects to go.google.com | go.google.com Redirect Virus Removal tool for Windows.

Hope you find these solutions useful. You can submit your problems to us at Our Submit Problem Page.

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We were reading some of blogs where we get know about the one of the most spreading malware these days via Internet called the
go.google.com redirects virus which redirects the user browser while browsing to some fake sites containing adsense ads.

Go.google.com mainly redirects the google search results to corrupt adsense web sites and also stops user from downloading files from the Internet. When user clicks on download links go.google.com displays the following fake errors

• Internet explorer cannot open web page
• filename.exe is not a valid win 32 application
• Setup files are corrupted. Please obtain new copy of program

Go.google.com is browser hijacker tool which infects firefox and Internet explorer and redirects the user to the following sites

• clearask.com
• web-analytics.google.com
• brittaniasearch.com
• go.google.com

Let’s see the symptoms of this virus and how can we remove go.google.com on Windows Vista and Windows XP.

Fix:

Go.google.com also disables the running firewalls and anti-virus softwares, records and send the urls visited to the hacker.

Most common symptoms of go.google.com browser hijacker

• It corrupt Registry files and “Blue Screen of Death”
• It changes the desktop background
• IE and Firefox slows down after getting infected by go.google.com virus
• Also infects e-mail attachments, messenger and other freeware programs

There are two tools available on the Internet which can remove go.google.com virus from Windows XP and Windows Vista

Note: Both of these tools are Shareware programs classified as spyware and antivirus tools which lets you remove the virus completely free of cost, so you can use them in their trail version time period.

[ Download go.google.com virus removal tool for windows XP | Download go.google.com tool for Windows Vista ]

For Those who are not able to remove go.google.com virus by above mentioned tools can try Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware (MBA-M)

We have received a comment on this post which will again help you remove go.google.com redirect virus given below

Last Method to Remove Go.google.com virus

Go to Start > Control Panel > System > Hardware > Device Manager > View > Show Hidden Devices.

Scroll down to “Non-plug and Play Drivers” and click the plus icon to open those drivers.

Then search for “TDSSserv.sys”

Right click on it, and select “Disable”

Note: If you select Uninstall, it will install itself again when you reboot the system, so DON’T select Uninstall.

Restart your pc.

You can now update your Antirus/Malware/Rootkit softwares and the go.google rubbish will stop.

Its now up to the Anti-Virus/Malware/Spyware companies to make an effort to stop this, and not rely on simple basic home PC user’s like myself to save the world

In simple terms, TDSSserv.sys is a service/server redirecting all software updates to 127.0.0.1 (your own computer) so they won’t update

Thanks Bomp for this useful comment

See also our articles on Virus Removal

If still none of the above methods worked to remove the virus on your computer then you can try Trojan Remover which can finally delete this virus on your computer  ( as suggested by some of the readers )

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