Lately every time i restart windows, my firewall is turned off and i need to manually turn it back on.
Seems weird and it never used to do that before.

And secondly.
Google is playing games. Whenever i search something, it brings up results like usual, but if i click the link it takes me somewhere totally different. Kind of like a second search. I have to cut and paste the green address into my browser to actually go to where google found.
Is this an altered google, or has someone been tampering with my computer in someway?

Any clues would be great.

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Balls.

spyware.

Also says my windows defender is out of date, and when i go to check for updates it says security centre cant update definitions for windows defender.

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Balls.

download Mozilla Firefox. Ever since I did that, I haven't had any problems with spyware. Trying to get rid of it will be tricky, using something like Ad Aware may work, or you might have to do some registry hacks. Google it and you'll find a solution.

I've been using firefox since day dot.

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Balls.

whats the redirected search engine/web page you are getting?

What kind of internet protection have you got? Try something like Kaspersky that protects against virus, spam, spyware and malware?

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TD06 - Oink.

you dont have any other firewalls running in the background do you, ie. zonealarm, having zonealarm running a firewall with windows firewall can conflict so zonealarm may be turning off the windows firewall

its a random search...
hard to explain without showing someone.

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Balls.

Nope, no aftermarket protection whatsoever.
I hate it.

Eh, it was due for a clean up anyway..

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Balls.