Has anyone noticed google searches doing whacky things lately?

Thickasabrick

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Fri Dec-26-08 07:26 PM
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Has anyone noticed google searches doing whacky things lately?

I think maybe I have a virus, but when I do a search and click a link it takes me to some other lame search page that is unrelated to my search - it's like the link fakes me out to take me to these weird search pages. I use Mozilla and I have cleared all my cookies and restricting them, but it just keeps happening.

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KitchenWitch

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Fri Dec-26-08 07:29 PM
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1. Sounds like you have a browser hijacker

Download Spybot S+D

http://www.spybot.info/en/download/index.html

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Bossy Monkey

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Fri Dec-26-08 07:50 PM
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2. It appears that Hijack This is now working with Firefox

http://www.download.com/Trend-Micro-HijackThis/3000-8022_4-10227353.html
Not exactly for beginners, but there are many many help desks online. You can submit your HijackThis log, but oftener than not just googling whatever HijackThis result you're unsure about will help you. Of course in the short run, you'll have to do this from another computer.

To answer your question, no, I'm not having any problems like that with Google.

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Thickasabrick

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Fri Dec-26-08 08:34 PM
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3. Thank you both for the info!! Happy New Year!! nt

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