| all search results redirect to wrong sites | Sunbeem | 7/5/09 10:07 PM | Several times I do a Google search, for unrelated topics. I click on the search results that look like what I need, and get redirected to a totally unrelated site, usually just an advertisement but sometimes a search engine I've never heard of. Thi |
| Re: all search results redirect to wrong sites | Kaleh | 7/5/09 11:29 PM | The behavior you are seeing is consistent with malware being on your computer. I would suggest that you update your antivirus program and run a thorough scan. Follow-up with supplementary anti-malware scans if necessary. There are three products li |
| Re: all search results redirect to wrong sites | ReallyNiceGuy | 11/15/09 5:30 AM | The problem could be an overlay.xul file that is used by Firefox. See the instructions listed in the last answer, they solved my problem. http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Web+Search/thread?tid=6949450c2c42ac7c&hl=en |
| Re: all search results redirect to wrong sites | brbcsecretary | 2/2/10 8:52 AM | Thanks for your help, but this isnt just my computer it is true for everyone who does the search. The link is wrong through google, and needs to be corrected by them, any ideas? |
| Re: all search results redirect to wrong sites | Kaleh | 2/2/10 8:56 AM | @brbcsecretary Are you the original OP in this thread, using a different name? |
| Re: all search results redirect to wrong sites | brbcsecretary | 2/2/10 9:03 AM | Yes I originally posted this question yesterday. If you search my church, Broad Run Baptist Church in VA, we are listed 1st in the reults at 5143 Broad Run Church Rd, New Baltimore, VA... then if you click on the link it takes you to a church in wes |
| Re: all search results redirect to wrong sites | Kaleh | 2/2/10 9:06 AM | Since this is a totally different situation than the original topic in this discussion, let's keep this conversation in the discussion you started yesterday, that is located here: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Web+Search/thread?tid=0e3656681 |
| Re: all search results redirect to wrong sites | brbcsecretary | 2/2/10 9:22 AM | ok |
| Re: all search results redirect to wrong sites | devndev | 3/30/10 2:06 PM | I had the same issue after an ave.exe malware attack after trying many other antivirus and malware products like mbam, ad-aware, superantispyware etc i was losing hope. but then I tried Hitman Pro and it wiped it clean in 3 minutes.. O anyone with s |
| Re: all search results redirect to wrong sites | Isyelle | 5/8/10 12:46 PM | I just had the same problem and battled it for about a week. Now I think I've got the solution. I noticed the redirect behavior was only happening when I was searching with the integrated search from Firefox and not if I went to http://www.google.c |
| Re: all search results redirect to wrong sites | Isyelle | 5/10/10 4:46 PM | Ok, I take that back!! Redirect still occurs. I'm following this thread: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Web+Search/thread?tid=6df7e15519290612&hl=en I'm installing Hitman Pro from http://cnet.com. Everyone on there seems to be raving about it. |
| Re: all search results redirect to wrong sites | pctechwill | 5/27/10 2:00 PM | I've been fighting this thing for about a week now, found and removed an infection, still problem, downloaded stopzilla (per another board) and got frustrated with it, deleted it without fixing problem, many hard-to-do searches because everything was |
| Re: all search results redirect to wrong sites | Jyk5991 | 7/22/10 10:24 AM | I found a rougue DNS entry for ALL of my adapters, Wireless LAN Virtualbox etc you can run Trojan remover from susoft to fix this! The entry was:93.188.163.57and93.188.161.188 |
| Re: all search results redirect to wrong sites | Staple003 | 7/30/10 11:41 PM | The "host file fix" from pctechwill two post above worked for me. I went to http://www.microsoft.com and type in "host file fix" and it tooke me to a page (without a redirect). I clicked on the Microsoft FixIt icon (little guy with a wrench and hat) and |
| Re: all search results redirect to wrong sites | Staple003 | 7/30/10 11:42 PM | Also, just something I think caused this... Right before this happened I was on a site and the JAVA 6 loader popped up. Shorly after my software firewall asked if I wanted to give permission to some exe file. All the publisher content looked like Mi |
| Re: all search results redirect to wrong sites | edwardt | 8/15/10 11:52 AM | i had the same problem and it turned out to be the virtumonde.prx virus (also known as Vundo/ MS Juan). Download Malware Bytes Anti Malware program to get rid of it. NB - this is a clever virus in that it knows the names of anti virus & anti malware |