has the porn site, red tube installed itself into anyone elses bookmarks?

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when i found it in my laptop, i assumed that almost teenaged ds had accessed it and stupidly bookmarked it. but it has made an appearance in mom's desktop, which is incidently also infected with trojan horses. does anyone know if it manages to insiuntate itself into a computer, or should she be worried about who has been accessing her puter?
any advice appreciated

anyone?

not in mine

hmm think I'd be concerned about who is using her computer (unless it's your mum and she doesn't want to say)

lol.... she immediately thought of my poor bil. he is completely lovely certainly, but he aint stupid. he wouldnt bookmark such a site on her computer.
its the fact that its bookmarked that has me questioning it. if it was simply in browsing history then i would just assume that it was one of my cousins who came and looked at it.

some sites WILL take over and you can't get rid of the buggers. it only takes for someone to click on a rogue link, and if your pc isn't protected it can infect the system.

that 'aint' was supposed to be in a stupid accent, but reading it back, it sounds cringeworthy. please read it as bil is not a stupid idiot.

yes that does sound like either someone being immensely dim or something odd like a virus!

it might not be red tube, might be something else (pretending to be it)

has she got a virus scan you can run (or do you have one)?

we got a dreadful trojan that kept making adultfriendfinder (whatever that is) pop up! Was awful and eventually destroyed the computer. Might be worth calling Symantec or whoever your virus protection is with and just asking them what they recommend.

Personally, I obviously wouldn't know!

I did just google 'red tube virus' and it does actually exist - including resetting your default homepage to redtube.

thank you. i will have another look at her anti viral software.