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Old 04-12-2008, 10:54 PM
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Is any one having problems with links in google??

Ie I search something and click on the link and it takes me to go.google etc??

some sort of advertising??

Anyone know how to fix this?? I have uninstalled Explorer and re-installed it and still having problems

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Old 04-12-2008, 11:06 PM
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Google working fine for me, sounds like you might have some spyware going on there. Check your processes, anything weird running? Do a scan either way ..
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Old 04-12-2008, 11:17 PM
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go.google? sounds like your pc's been spyware hijacked

in any case who the uses explorer? thats 90% of your problem in the first place

run firefox its better and more secure, then install, noscript and adblock plus and you're going to survive out here :P plus surfing will be 80% faster and use 80% less bandwidth when all the adverts are gone. noscript prevents anything interesting running on a website unless you allow it to.

also given you have internet explorer the bets are on that you probably have some terrible anti virus like Norton or mcafee... go and get AVG (free) and use that, it will actually find the problem.
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Old 04-12-2008, 11:21 PM
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i use trend micro - been great so far

I was thinking spyware but go.google is a google product??

if i cant fix it - firefox sounds good
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Old 05-12-2008, 05:54 AM
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go.google is a known Spyware.

Its made to sound Legit to fool people but its 100% Spyware.
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duder!!!

sounds like spyware , get ad-aware , its free and does the job
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Old 06-12-2008, 06:14 PM
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So I popped my virgin Trojan Horse cherry sometime in the last week. Picked up the infection through AVG Free 7. Have done the full sweep and deleted the infected files with AVG Virus scanner, AVG Anti-Spyware and Spysweeper but something tells me it's not quite clear (random pop ups every so often). Any recommendations on some other programs to try? Torrents or otherwise but I suspect that's where it come from in the first place.................
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Old 06-12-2008, 06:19 PM
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tried that spybot...been usig it for a while never had any problem...mainly because i re format my comp every 6months
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I don't think mines ever been reformatted. Might be about time I suppose, cheers
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i just started geting random pop ups now? , i blame perth wrx , or porn web sites .... no that cant be it , must be perth-wrx
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