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Title: Google search redirection?
Post by: Clear_Runway on January 28, 2010, 10:12:05 PM

for some reason, whenever I search anything on google with firefox under windows, 9 times out of 10 the resulting links redirect to some useless site that also searches for what I just searched for. copying and pasting the link works fine, but when I copy the link directly and paste it I get a link a mile long, and a redirect. does anyone know of an antivirus that can kill this sort of adware? (avast can't do it, and neither can my recently-uninstalled norton)

Title: Re: Google search redirection?
Post by: ivan on January 28, 2010, 10:22:36 PM

Never had this kind of problem with Mosaic on Win 3.11 running on my trusty 386DX.

Progress -- overrated.

Title: Re: Google search redirection?
Post by: Clear_Runway on January 28, 2010, 10:41:15 PM

actually, I managed to beat it - but not get rid of it - by downloading NoScript and forbidding google.com from using any javascript.

Title: Re: Google search redirection?
Post by: h4wt_b3t4 on February 12, 2010, 07:13:34 PM

I would have suggested MalwareBytes. My old POC (no, ivan, I guess it wasn't as cool as your 386DX) PC had the same issue >.<

But yeah, since it worked, I'm just putting it out there. In case anyone else has the same issue, I guess.

Title: Re: Google search redirection?
Post by: Novice on February 14, 2010, 07:47:51 PM

Spybot?

Title: Re: Google search redirection?
Post by: rogue_77 on February 15, 2010, 01:04:30 PM

Actually I had this problem awhile ago and it was weird.  I had an issue with something called Your PC Protection or something installing itself on my computer and I got rid of that with spybot/etc but I still had the google pointing its search results to someplace like search8click.com or something.

From what I dug around you need to goto your 'View LAN Connections' window from your My Computer(if your using windoze).  From there I had to open Local Area Network, click Internet Protocol(TCP/IP), click Properties and thats where the issue is from what I found.

The checkbox SHOULD be on "Obtain an IP Automatically."

Before I fixed the problem I opened that window and I had an IP address input into the selection and the other box was marked.  I guess this is called DNS Hijacking or something.  You can use google but you need to COPY/PASTE the link locations into the URL thing, thats what I did and how I found out to solve my problem.

I hope that helps but don't sue me if Windoze blows up.