Problems using Google
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Problems using Google
Anyone experience problems like this?
A few weeks ago I tried to use google (prior to this everything worked perfectly btw) and got something else completely. I have tried to fix this problem many times, reinstalling internet explorer, viewing host files, even used a feature in spybot that lets you adjust urls that a website may have changed to redirect you to a different site when you tried to view the orignial website. Nothing worked.
Here is what I see when I go to google.com
http://www.gregoryjboyd.com/google.gif
The link is safe, it is a screen shot I took of my browser viewing google.
A few weeks ago I tried to use google (prior to this everything worked perfectly btw) and got something else completely. I have tried to fix this problem many times, reinstalling internet explorer, viewing host files, even used a feature in spybot that lets you adjust urls that a website may have changed to redirect you to a different site when you tried to view the orignial website. Nothing worked.
Here is what I see when I go to google.com
http://www.gregoryjboyd.com/google.gif
The link is safe, it is a screen shot I took of my browser viewing google.
- twigletmac
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Nothing Reported
That website reported nothing (though it loaded so quickly its hard to believe it did a decent sweep of my system)
I have spybot installed, but that detected nothing. Nor did Lavasofts Ad-Aware.
That website had a link to hijackthis. Sounds like it might work I'm going to try it and post the results.
Thanks
I have spybot installed, but that detected nothing. Nor did Lavasofts Ad-Aware.
That website had a link to hijackthis. Sounds like it might work I'm going to try it and post the results.
Thanks
Thank you very much Twigletmac!
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/
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Generally you have no idea how these things happen. It can come from allowing an activex component to run, installing shareware/freeware/cracked stuff off the web. Peer to peer clients are often implicated. I've had a parasite before, don't know where it came from (I'm fairly careful with what I install and run and allow and my internet security setting are high) but it's gone now thanks to doxdesk (oh and no longer using IE
).
Mac
Mac
Not a clue
I have no clue what caused it. I do know that the problem occured both at home and at work oddly enough. I can not think of one thing that I downloaded/installed/or viewed on both computers. All I can think of is that I did take some files home to work on, and it might have gotten on to my disk when I did that.
Hopefully you'll never have this problem
thanks
Hopefully you'll never have this problem
thanks
Yah those I knew of. Installing software often makes my software shout warnings.
But as Mac sais, not using IE (if not to check when devel), security settings a annoyingly high. It's just that you didn't know how it happened.
You seemed intelligent enough to both understand what it was (more than 'uhm.. something is fubar...') and knew (well almost
) how to fix it. I got the feeling that it was something new that the world didn't know of allready...
Nice to see it solved tho.
But as Mac sais, not using IE (if not to check when devel), security settings a annoyingly high. It's just that you didn't know how it happened.
You seemed intelligent enough to both understand what it was (more than 'uhm.. something is fubar...') and knew (well almost
Nice to see it solved tho.
