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Author Topic: Google search redirection?  (Read 2444 times)

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Google search redirection?
« 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)
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Re: Google search redirection?
« Reply #1 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.

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Re: Google search redirection?
« Reply #2 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.
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Re: Google search redirection?
« Reply #3 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.
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Re: Google search redirection?
« Reply #4 on: February 14, 2010, 07:47:51 PM »
Spybot?
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Re: Google search redirection?
« Reply #5 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.
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