clinking a searched link brings up further search terms...

[Brad Pears]

Hi there...

I can't seem to find a solution to this particular issue. I am running IE8
on a Windows XP SP3 machine. In almost every instance whenever I perform a
search - whether it be google or bing or whoever, I get my list of matches
no probs, but if I click on one of the searched links, instead of being
taken diretly to wherever that link is supposed to take me, I am being taken
to another page containing a bunch of other "related" search terms
instead - sometimes it's the same company "hijaaking" me but overall I get
many different companies such as www.luckyresults .com, even "Microsoft
Technet" sometimes, "searchoye.com", "11picks.com" etc.. In order to get to
the link I want, I wind up having to copy and paste the URL listed in teh
google/bing search record (if the URL is not too long).

I am running both a Symantec Corprate AV 10.1 client as well as Spybot
Search and Destroy. On full scans, neither of these have turned up anything
that has prevented this from happening. Any research I have done has not
turned up anything really tangible.

It's got to be some sort of "spyware/adware" etc... I have looked in the IE
tools and addons - I can;t see anything there either... This also happens
in IE 7 too, as I recently upgraded to ver 8.

Any ideas??

Thanks, Brad

 

[Don Varnau]

Hi,
Try the Windows Live Safety Scanner
http://onecare.live.com/site/en-US/default.htm

Follow that with (free version) Malwarebytes Anti-Malware
http://www.malwarebytes.org/

If there is *any* reason to suspect that these tools didn't remove all
malware, visit one of these sites, register and follow the protocol.

Aumha:
http://www.aumha.net/viewforum.php?f=30
Start at http://www.aumha.net/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=4075

SpywareHammer:
http://spywarehammer.com/simplemach...PSESSID=3vhdc3qhmgg1usn83p2ctbss45&board=10.0
Read:
http://spywarehammer.com/simplemach...PSESSID=3vhdc3qhmgg1usn83p2ctbss45&topic=87.0
then
http://spywarehammer.com/simplemach...PSESSID=3vhdc3qhmgg1usn83p2ctbss45&topic=88.0

Bleeping Computer:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/forum22.html
-
Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]


"Brad Pears" <bradp@truenorthloghomes.com> wrote in message
news$cc7fXuKHA.2072@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Hi there...
>
> I can't seem to find a solution to this particular issue. I am running IE8
> on a Windows XP SP3 machine. In almost every instance whenever I perform a
> search - whether it be google or bing or whoever, I get my list of matches
> no probs, but if I click on one of the searched links, instead of being
> taken diretly to wherever that link is supposed to take me, I am being
taken
> to another page containing a bunch of other "related" search terms
> instead - sometimes it's the same company "hijaaking" me but overall I get
> many different companies such as www.luckyresults .com, even "Microsoft
> Technet" sometimes, "searchoye.com", "11picks.com" etc.. In order to get
to
> the link I want, I wind up having to copy and paste the URL listed in teh
> google/bing search record (if the URL is not too long).
>
> I am running both a Symantec Corprate AV 10.1 client as well as Spybot
> Search and Destroy. On full scans, neither of these have turned up
anything
> that has prevented this from happening. Any research I have done has not
> turned up anything really tangible.
>
> It's got to be some sort of "spyware/adware" etc... I have looked in the
IE
> tools and addons - I can;t see anything there either... This also
happens
> in IE 7 too, as I recently upgraded to ver 8.
>
> Any ideas??
>
> Thanks, Brad
>
>

 

[Brad Pears]

Thanks Don... I'll give those a try!

Brad
"Don Varnau" <don_04[at]varnau[dot]org> wrote in message
news:%23GKm99YuKHA.732@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
> Try the Windows Live Safety Scanner
> http://onecare.live.com/site/en-US/default.htm
>
> Follow that with (free version) Malwarebytes Anti-Malware
> http://www.malwarebytes.org/
>
> If there is *any* reason to suspect that these tools didn't remove all
> malware, visit one of these sites, register and follow the protocol.
>
> Aumha:
> http://www.aumha.net/viewforum.php?f=30
> Start at http://www.aumha.net/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=4075
>
> SpywareHammer:
> http://spywarehammer.com/simplemach...PSESSID=3vhdc3qhmgg1usn83p2ctbss45&board=10.0
> Read:
> http://spywarehammer.com/simplemach...PSESSID=3vhdc3qhmgg1usn83p2ctbss45&topic=87.0
> then
> http://spywarehammer.com/simplemach...PSESSID=3vhdc3qhmgg1usn83p2ctbss45&topic=88.0
>
> Bleeping Computer:
> http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/forum22.html
> -
> Hope this helps,
> Don
> [MS MVP- IE]
>
>
> "Brad Pears" <bradp@truenorthloghomes.com> wrote in message
> news$cc7fXuKHA.2072@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> Hi there...
>>
>> I can't seem to find a solution to this particular issue. I am running
>> IE8
>> on a Windows XP SP3 machine. In almost every instance whenever I perform
>> a
>> search - whether it be google or bing or whoever, I get my list of
>> matches
>> no probs, but if I click on one of the searched links, instead of being
>> taken diretly to wherever that link is supposed to take me, I am being
> taken
>> to another page containing a bunch of other "related" search terms
>> instead - sometimes it's the same company "hijaaking" me but overall I
>> get
>> many different companies such as www.luckyresults .com, even "Microsoft
>> Technet" sometimes, "searchoye.com", "11picks.com" etc.. In order to get
> to
>> the link I want, I wind up having to copy and paste the URL listed in teh
>> google/bing search record (if the URL is not too long).
>>
>> I am running both a Symantec Corprate AV 10.1 client as well as Spybot
>> Search and Destroy. On full scans, neither of these have turned up
> anything
>> that has prevented this from happening. Any research I have done has not
>> turned up anything really tangible.
>>
>> It's got to be some sort of "spyware/adware" etc... I have looked in the
> IE
>> tools and addons - I can;t see anything there either... This also
> happens
>> in IE 7 too, as I recently upgraded to ver 8.
>>
>> Any ideas??
>>
>> Thanks, Brad
>>
>>
>